[Rd] Bug in file.copy: overwrite=FALSE ignored (PR#3529)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:27:34 +0200 (MET DST),
richard_raubertas at merck.com wrote :

>I am using R 1.7.1 on Windows XP Pro.
>
>The 'overwrite=FALSE' argument appears to be ignored in
>file.copy():
>
>> file.exists(c("file1.txt", "file2.txt"))
>[1] TRUE TRUE
>> file.copy(from="file2.txt", to="file1.txt", overwrite=FALSE)
>[1] TRUE
>> 
>
>and sure enough, file1.txt has been overwritten.

There was a bug in the file.copy code; I'll submit a patch.

Duncan Murdoch