[R] Folder size

Luca Cerone luca.cerone at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 13:02:05 CET 2015


of course you can substitute "." with a path to your folder.. and you
might want to set fullnames = TRUE and maybe include.dirs = TRUE
in list.files

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Luca Cerone <luca.cerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> sum(file.info(list.files(".", all.files = TRUE, recursive = TRUE))$size)
>
> should do the trick.
>
> Cheers,
> Luca
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Christofer Bogaso
> <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I am wondering if there is any way to extract the Folder size. For
>> example, I want to get information of size for all folders in my C:
>> drive.
>>
>> It seems that the function file.info() only work for File, not on Folder.
>>
>> Appreciate any pointer.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
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