[R] Deleting a file on a drive from within R

[Dave Deriso]

file_to_delete = file.choose()
file.remove(file_to_delete)

Best,
Dave Deriso
UCSD Psychology

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an Excel file on a drive and I extract data from it into R session.
> Once I have extracted the data, I want to delete that Excel file from the drive.
> Can I do that from within R, please?
>
> Thank you for help!
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
>
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