However, there is a bug in ?dir.create:
"'dir.create' indicates failure if the dirwctory already exiss."
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Sundar Dorai-Raj <sdorai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not a bug. Try:
>
> print(dir.create("foo"))
>
> or
>
> foo <- dir.create("foo")
> foo
>
> HTH,
>
> --sundar
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:10 AM, <r.hijm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ?dir.create (part of the base package) says that:
>> "dir.create and Sys.chmod return a logical vector indicating which
>> operation succeeded for each of the files attempted"
>>
>> However, on my system it returns nothing (whether successful or not):
>>
>>> dir.create(":::@!#!::")
>>> dir.create('b')
>>
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>
>>
>> HTH, Robert
>>
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