[R] Create directory and copy files in R

Don MacQueen
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:20 -0000

In your file.copy() command you have "deskfile",
but "deskfile" does not appear anywhere else.
Perhaps you meant deskdir?

After the error occurs, type

   traceback()

and try to discern exactly where things went wrong.

-Don

At 5:05 PM +0300 9/21/09, Tammy Ma wrote:
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>HI, All R users,
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>My problem is:
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>>  fn
>[1] "C:/Documents and
>Settings/lma/Desktop/FamilyAEntrepreneurs/Entrepreneurs/Juha/book_log-20041210T095019.txt"
>>  dpath
>[1] "C:/Documents and Settings/lma/My Documents/Juha/book"
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>
>I want to make  a function "cyfun" to copy all
>files in "dir" to "deskdir" but I always got the
>following problem:
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>Error in file.exists(to) : invalid 'file' argument.
>Whats the problem??
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>
>
>
>cyfun<-function(fn,dpath){
>dir<-dirname(fn)
>fn<-basename(fn)
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>deskdir<-dir.create(dpath)
>file.copy(fn, deskfile)
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>}
>
>Thanks!
>
>Tammy
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