Thanks for the suggestions. In windows (Windows 7, 64-bit), I couldn't get
"file.symlink" to work, but "file.link" did return the result to be "TRUE"
but at the target location, I did not see any link.

Not sure I am missing anything more.. Hope it's nothing to do with
administrator accounts and administrator rights... Is it something I should
check with my system administrator?

Thanks,
Santosh


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 02/05/2013 19:50, Santosh wrote:
>
>> Dear Rxperts..
>> Got a couple of quick q's..
>> I am using R in windows environment (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
>> a) Is there a way to create symbolic links to some data files?
>>
>
> See ?file.symlink.  ??'symbolic link' should have got you there.
>
> Note that this is not very useful for files, but that is a Windows and not
> an R restriction.
>
>
> > b) How do I read data from symbolic links?
>
> The same ways you read data from files.
>
>
>> Thanks so much..
>> Santosh
>>
>
>
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