[R] Creating directory under Windows R session

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:

> I have tested in WinXP:
>
> example:
>> dir("C:/")
> [1] "Arquivos de programas"         "AUTOEXEC.BAT"
> [3] "boot.ini"                      "Bootfont.bin"
> [5] "CONFIG.SYS"                    "Debug"
> [7] "debug.log"                     "Desktop.ini"
> [9] "Dic"                           "Documents and Settings"
>
> "Dic" is a folder
> any(dir("C:/")=="Dic")
> [1] TRUE
>
>
> That are right?

You said the test was

       > any(dir('your path')=="your folder")

Now, what did you mean by that?  The path "C:/" is not the path to the 
folder named on the RHS.  And I believe you will find your test also gives 
TRUE for AUTOEXEC.BAT, which is not a directory.

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