[R] R for copying and pasting selected image files?

[Robert Baer]

You don't tell us your OS, but the system() command should let you use your 
OS to copy/move files on most OSs.

see ?system
Other commands that might be helpful for this job are:
?setwd
?getwd
?dir

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Milferstedt" <milferst at uiuc.edu>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:33 AM
Subject: [R] R for copying and pasting selected image files?


> Hello,
>
> I would like to use R to process a list of text strings. The text
> strings are filenames, encoding experimental settings. Based on the
> information in there I'd like to select certain files and copy only
> the selected files to another directory.
>
> The files are images and there is no need, actually no desire, to
> open them. Is there a way to use R for copying and pasting files with
> any file extension to another directory without opening them?
>
> Thanks already for any help,
>
> Kim
>
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