[Rd] R-2.5.0 and unlink/wildcards

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is shell-dependent on a Unix-alike, but Sys.glob() should work.  So 
try

unlink(Sys.glob("run.*"), recursive=TRUE)


On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Ernest Turro wrote:

> It seems unlink doesn't work with wildcards in 2.5.0. I've tried
> R-2.5.0 under gnu/linux from source and the Mac binary from att
> research. Example:
>
> > dir()
> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf" "run.1"
> > unlink("run.*",recursive=T)
> > dir()
> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf" "run.1"
> > unlink("run.1",recursive=T)
> > dir()
> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf"

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