Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 25.05.2013 21:18, peter dalgaard wrote: On May 25, 2013, at 19:59 , Uwe Ligges wrote: On 25.05.2013 19:58, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 24.05.2013 04:03, Santosh wrote: Dear R experts, This time I am unable create symbolic links to files as I had done last time. I could not replicate what

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-25 Thread peter dalgaard
On May 25, 2013, at 19:59 , Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 25.05.2013 19:58, Uwe Ligges wrote: >> >> >> On 24.05.2013 04:03, Santosh wrote: >>> Dear R experts, >>> >>> This time I am unable create symbolic links to files as I had done last >>> time. I could not replicate what I had successfully

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 25.05.2013 19:58, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 24.05.2013 04:03, Santosh wrote: Dear R experts, This time I am unable create symbolic links to files as I had done last time. I could not replicate what I had successfully tried last time (rerun the same code without any modifications) . I get the

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 24.05.2013 04:03, Santosh wrote: Dear R experts, This time I am unable create symbolic links to files as I had done last time. I could not replicate what I had successfully tried last time (rerun the same code without any modifications) . I get the following error message.. [1] FALSE Warni

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-23 Thread Santosh
Dear R experts, This time I am unable create symbolic links to files as I had done last time. I could not replicate what I had successfully tried last time (rerun the same code without any modifications) . I get the following error message.. [1] FALSE Warning message: In file.link(".file1", file2

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-03 Thread Santosh
Just got it right please ignore the previous posting... It worked! Prof Ripley made my day!! :) THANK YOU! On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Santosh wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion... I upgraded to R.3.0.0 in 64-bit Windows 7 > environment.. > > This time when I use file.link.. > I get

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-03 Thread Santosh
Thanks for your suggestion... I upgraded to R.3.0.0 in 64-bit Windows 7 environment.. This time when I use file.link.. I get the following error message: 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists" And I don't see the link. The other function, file.copy, correctly copies to the target lo

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 03/05/2013 07:33, Santosh wrote: 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

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Santosh
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 ad

Re: [R] Create and read symbolic links in Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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