Thanks, this now works.
I'd just like to mention that Sys.glob() wasn't necessary in 2.4.1
and this potential requirement should perhaps be mentioned in ?unlink.
Thanks
E
On 25 Apr 2007, at 12:38, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> This is shell-dependent on a Unix-alike, but Sys.glob() should
> work. So try
>
> unlink(Sys.glob("run.*"), recursive=TRUE)
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Ernest Turro wrote:
>
>> It seems unlink doesn't work with wildcards in 2.5.0. I've tried
>> R-2.5.0 under gnu/linux from source and the Mac binary from att
>> research. Example:
>>
>> > dir()
>> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf" "run.1"
>> > unlink("run.*",recursive=T)
>> > dir()
>> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf" "run.1"
>> > unlink("run.1",recursive=T)
>> > dir()
>> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf"
>
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