[R] Rearranging sub-folders, how?

[David L Carlson]

If this is a one-time change, it will be simpler to use the Windows File explorer (I assume Windows since you are using backslashes). If it needs to be done using R functions, this seems to work:

> dir.create("A/B/C/D/E", recursive=TRUE)
> list.dirs("A")
[1] "A"         "A/B"       "A/B/C"     "A/B/C/D"   "A/B/C/D/E"
> file.rename("A/B/C/D", "A/B/D")
[1] TRUE
> list.dirs("A")
[1] "A"       "A/B"     "A/B/C"   "A/B/D"   "A/B/D/E"
> file.rename("A/B/C", "A/B/D/C")
[1] TRUE
> list.dirs("A")
[1] "A"       "A/B"     "A/B/D"   "A/B/D/C" "A/B/D/E"
> file.rename("A/B/D/E", "A/B/D/C/E")
[1] TRUE
> list.dirs("A")
[1] "A"         "A/B"       "A/B/D"     "A/B/D/C"   "A/B/D/C/E"

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David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352

-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Kristi Glover
Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2016 6:29 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Rearranging sub-folders, how?

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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