Thanks for the suggestions. In windows (Windows 7, 64-bit), I couldn't get "file.symlink" to work, but "file.link" did return the result to be "TRUE" but at the target location, I did not see any link.
Not sure I am missing anything more.. Hope it's nothing to do with administrator accounts and administrator rights... Is it something I should check with my system administrator? Thanks, Santosh On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On 02/05/2013 19:50, Santosh wrote: > >> Dear Rxperts.. >> Got a couple of quick q's.. >> I am using R in windows environment (both 32-bit and 64-bit) >> a) Is there a way to create symbolic links to some data files? >> > > See ?file.symlink. ??'symbolic link' should have got you there. > > Note that this is not very useful for files, but that is a Windows and not > an R restriction. > > > > b) How do I read data from symbolic links? > > The same ways you read data from files. > > >> Thanks so much.. >> Santosh >> > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
