Thanks for the report, fixed in R-devel. Now we get a warning when
copying a directory over a non-directory file is attempted. The target
(non-directory) file is left alone.
Tomas
On 09/08/2017 06:54 PM, William Dunlap via R-devel wrote:
When I mistakenly use file.copy() with a directory for
Bug 17337. Note that I get R making the zero-length file on both Windows
and Linux, but the return values are different.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
> > William Dunlap via R-devel
> > on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:54
> William Dunlap via R-devel
> on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:54:58 -0700 writes:
> When I mistakenly use file.copy() with a directory for the 'from' argument
> and a non-directory for the 'to' and overwrite=TRUE, file.copy returns
> FALSE, meaning it could not do the copying. How
When I mistakenly use file.copy() with a directory for the 'from' argument
and a non-directory for the 'to' and overwrite=TRUE, file.copy returns
FALSE, meaning it could not do the copying. However, it also replaces the
'to' file with a zero-length file.
dir.create( fromDir <- tempfile() )
cat(fi
