Full_Name: Jens Oehlschlägel
Version: 2.10.0
OS: Windows XP Professional
Submission from: (NULL) (85.181.158.112)
file.rename() will successfully rename file a to b - even if b exists already.
Though the documentation does not state what file.rename() will do in this
case,
I guess the expected behaviour is to fail and return FALSE.
Kind regards
Jens Oehlschlägel
> cat("a\n", file="a.txt")
> cat("b\n", file="b.txt")
> file.rename("a.txt","b.txt")
[1] TRUE
> readLines("b.txt")
[1] "a"
> version
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platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status
major 2
minor 10.0
year 2009
month 10
day 26
svn rev 50208
language R
version.string R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
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