[R] How to check if file is on a drive?

Sergey Goriatchev sergeyg at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 12:00:27 CET 2009


Great! Thank you, Romain!

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:33, Romain Francois
<romain.francois at dbmail.com> wrote:
> ?file.exists
>
> On 12/03/2009 11:31 AM, Sergey Goriatchev wrote:
>>
>> Hello, everyone
>>
>> How would I check in R if a particular file (Excel file) is in a
>> particular folder on a particular drive?
>> I am writing a piece of code around that file, using xls.open() in
>> xlsReadWritePro to open the file in memory and use it. But before I
>> try to open the file I want to catch the possibility of the file not
>> being on the drive.
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>> SG
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