system is one option, as it turns out, this is common enough that there are
special functions for it, see ?file.copy
More generally, this is a great use of apropos:
apropos("file")
Shows a lot of options. An alternative work flow would be a shell script that
runs r scripts and also interacts with the system (depending how much system
interaction is needed).
Cheers,
Josh
On Nov 1, 2011, at 19:42, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> I have a variable named file1 which contains the name of a file. I
> would like to copy that file to a different directory. Can I do that
> via the system command or is there a better way, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>
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> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
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