On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, mel wrote:
> access networked PCs directories/files with R ?
>
> Dear group,
>
> I would like to know if there is an "easy" way to access several
> networked PCs directories/files from one PC with R ?
> Concerned OS is windows.
>
> I can for instance use dir() on my current PC.
> Is there a way to do dir() on a connected PC ?
> (Is there a special syntax for the path ?)
If it works at all, the usual syntax will work. E.g.
> dir("\\\\reeve\\temp")
[1] "biblio.tex" "R"
(that's \\reeve\temp, the share \temp on machine 'reeve').
> (read.table() or readLines() work with URLs
> I imagine it may also work on connected shared PCs)
No, because MS has not implemented the RFC1738 for URLs to apply to remote
machines. See ?url.
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