Re: [Rd] tar R command

2010-11-28 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
First, if you look carefully, then you see that argument 'files' should specify *filepaths*, i.e. directories and not specific files. Thus, if you for instance place your files in directory "foo/" and then call tar("foo.tar", files="foo/"); you would do the right thing. HOWEVER, looking at the i

[Rd] tar R command

2010-11-28 Thread Dario Strbenac
Hello, The documentation for the tar command leads me to think there is an internal implementation when the command can't be found in the OS. However, it doesn't seem to be the case, as I get an empty .tar file generated on a small example I made : > dir(pattern = "jpg") [1] "MA56237502_635.jp