[R] Removing script file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Dennis Fisher wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> (Running R 2.7.0)
>
> I have a script that I want to delete as it completes execution.  The
> penultimate line of the script (before the quit command) is:
> 	file.remove("Scriptname")
> The script is executed as:
> 	R --no-save < Scriptname
>
> In OS X and Linux this is successful and returns:
>>> file.remove("x")
>> [1] TRUE
> and the file is deleted
>
> In Windows XP, it returns:
>> [1] FALSE
>
> and the file is not deleted.
>
> I realize that this is an OS issue rather than an issue with execution
> of the command.  Is there some means to delete the script from within R?

Not in an OS that does not allow open files to be deleted.  (Not the whole 
truth for WIndows, but true of the mechanism used to implement redirection 
in the compiler used for R.)

You could modify Rscript to do so (it does not use re-direction).

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