[R] Delete files from R
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Tue May 13 13:05:08 CEST 2003
Unternährer Thomas, uth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a file: d:\foo.txt and want to delete this.
>
> I tried:
> system("del d:/foo.txt") works not
> system("notepad d:/foo.txt") works
>
> Is it possible that I can't delete files or do I have misunderstood something?
>
> (del is a DOS-command. The "string works" under DOS "\")
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Thomas
>
Two simple ways:
file.remove("d:/foo.txt")
and
shell("del d:\\foo.txt")
Uwe Ligges
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