Hi,
I try to delete the files in a directory. While the command
invisible(lapply( list.files( "DeleteThis" ), function(x)
file.remove(paste("DeleteThis", x, sep="/" )) ))
works, I keep thinking that there should be a more direct command.
"unlink" looks like a good candidate but whith this I only arrive to
either delete the whole directory or nothing happens at all. Code:
file.exists( "DeleteThis" ) # TRUE: folder is here
(unlink( "DeleteThis/*.*" )) # 0, content doesn't get deleted
(unlink( "DeleteThis/*" )) # do.
(unlink( "DeleteThis/*.*", TRUE )) # do.
(unlink( "DeleteThis/*", TRUE )) # do.
unlink( "DeleteThis", TRUE ) # whole folder will be deleted
According to the help placeholders are allowed so I don't see where is an error.
Thanks for your help!
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Regards,
Hans-Peter
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