You don't tell us your OS, but the system() command should let you use your OS to copy/move files on most OSs.
see ?system Other commands that might be helpful for this job are: ?setwd ?getwd ?dir ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Milferstedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:33 AM Subject: [R] R for copying and pasting selected image files? > Hello, > > I would like to use R to process a list of text strings. The text > strings are filenames, encoding experimental settings. Based on the > information in there I'd like to select certain files and copy only > the selected files to another directory. > > The files are images and there is no need, actually no desire, to > open them. Is there a way to use R for copying and pasting files with > any file extension to another directory without opening them? > > Thanks already for any help, > > Kim > > __________________________________________ > > Kim Milferstedt > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering > 4125 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory > 205 North Mathews Avenue MC-250 > Urbana, IL 61801 > USA > phone: (001) 217 333-9663 > fax: (001) 217 333-6968 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/morgenroth > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
