Thank you Boris. It worked.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> The command:
>
> system("chflags -R nouchg /path/to/your/directory")
>
> ... should unlock your files recursively in the directory. Then proceed with
> file.remove()
>
> B.
>
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for some R code, which will delete all files in a Folder
>> that contains both Locked and Unlocked files. There are many,
>> therefore i would like to delete all files programmatically in one go.
>>
>> I used following code :
>>
>> ## "SS" is the Folder name including entire path which contains Locked
>> and Unlocked files.
>>
>> file.remove(file.path(ss, list.files(ss)))
>> [1] FALSE
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: In file.remove(file.path(ss, list.files(ss))) :
>> cannot remove file '..... my folder path...', reason 'Read-only file system'
>>
>> Also when I tried to delete a single Locked file, I am getting following
>> error:
>>
>> Warning message:
>> In file.remove(ss1) :
>> cannot remove file '/..... my folder path...', reason 'Operation not
>> permitted'
>>
>> I am using Mac with OS : 10.7.5
>>
>> Could you please help me with correct R code?
>>
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