?dir.create (part of the base package) says that: "dir.create and Sys.chmod return a logical vector indicating which operation succeeded for each of the files attempted"
However, on my system it returns nothing (whether successful or not): > dir.create(":::@!#!::") > dir.create('b') > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > HTH, Robert ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel