[R] Problem with dir.create (R2.2.0 Windows XP 2002 SP 2)

[Michael H. Prager]

I hope this isn't an insulting question, but does drive D: exist on that 
machine?

Mike

on 12/14/2005 11:09 AM hadley wickham said the following:

>I've run into a problem with dir.create on R2.2.0 Windows XP 2002 SP 2.
>
>setwd("d:/")
>print(dir.create("d:\\otis-sim\\rdata", recursive=T))
>print(dir.create("d:\\otis-sim\\", recursive=T))
>
>Both return false and fail to create the directories.
>
>setwd("c:/")
>print(dir.create("d:\\otis-sim\\rdata", recursive=T))
>
>Returns true and succesfully creates the directories.
>
>Why does this occur?
>
>Hadley
>
>  
>

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