[R] Rearranging sub-folders, how?

[David Winsemius]

> On Oct 1, 2016, at 5:50 AM, Kristi Glover <kristi.glover at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jim for the suggestions.
> 
> I used following but it seems not working
> 
> dir.create(foldA\subFoldB\subFoldD\subFoldC\subFoldE)

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-- 
david.

> 
> I got a trouble in moving contents of one folder to another.
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com>
> Sent: October 1, 2016 6:07 AM
> To: Kristi Glover
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Rearranging sub-folders, how?
> 
> Hi Kristi,
> I assume that B, C and D are not empty, otherwise the answer is trivial.
> 
> create a directory under B named D
> move the contents of the old D to the new D
> delete the directory E beneath the new D
> create a new directory C under the new D
> move the contents of the old C to the new C
> recursively delete D under the new C
> move the old E under the new C
> recursively delete the old C
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Kristi Glover <kristi.glover at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi R user,
>> 
>> I was wondering how we can rearrange the folders in R. for example
>> 
>> original data has been put with the following arrangement:
>> 
>> foldA\subFoldB\subFoldC\subFoldD\subFoldE\
>> 
>> 
>> SubFoldE contains several dataset
>> 
>> 
>> I want to rearrange the subFoldE into following sequence:
>> 
>> 
>> foldA\subFoldB\subFoldD\subFoldC\subFoldE\
>> 
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA