[R] Copy and Rename Folder in same directory

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Mon May 8 13:06:49 CEST 2017


On 08/05/2017 6:59 AM, Archit Soni wrote:
> Hey Ben,
>
> I tried this,
>
> # identify the folders
> current.folder <- "C:/Where my files currently live"
> new.folder <- "H:/Where I want my files to be copied to"
>
> # find the files that you want
> list.of.files <- list.files(current.folder, "SDM\\.tif$",full.names=T)
>
> # copy the files to the new folder
> file.copy(list.of.files, new.folder)
>
> But i am still getting FALSE and files are not getting copied from the
> folder. However,if I give a single file name it copies that file to new
> folder.
>
> Any thoughts ?

Getting FALSE where?

Does list.of.files look right?

If it contains any directories, you'll want "recursive = TRUE" in 
file.copy().

Duncan Murdoch



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