[R] Copy and Rename Folder in same directory

[Ben Tupper]

My eye gets drawn immediately to file.rename() - did you give that a shake?



> On May 8, 2017, at 6:59 AM, Archit Soni <soni.archit1989 at gmail.com> 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 ?
> 
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Archit Soni <soni.archit1989 at gmail.com <mailto:soni.archit1989 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Thanks Ben. :)
> 
> On May 8, 2017 16:06, "Ben Tupper" <btupper at bigelow.org <mailto:btupper at bigelow.org>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Checkout all of the functions for file/directory management under ?files  (note the plural).
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
> 
> > On May 8, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Archit Soni <soni.archit1989 at gmail.com <mailto:soni.archit1989 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Forgive me to ask this kind of naive question.
> >
> > But it would be of immense help if you could help me suggesting a way to
> > copy a folder in the same directory and paste it in the same directory with
> > different name.
> >
> > Ex:
> >
> > C:/Folder A -- C:/Folder A_B
> >
> > Contents should be copied as is.
> >
> > Thanks for reading and thanks in advance!
> >
> > Archit
> >
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> Ben Tupper
> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
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> Regards
> Archit

Ben Tupper
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380
East Boothbay, Maine 04544
http://www.bigelow.org




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