[Rd] potential file.copy() or documentation bug when copy.date = TRUE

[Tomas Kalibera]

Thanks for the report, fixed in R-devel.

Best,
Tomas

On 04/05/2018 05:01 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> This is a recent R-devel. file.copy() is not vectorized if multiple
> destinations succeed:
>
> cat("foo1\n", file = "foo1")
> cat("foo2\n", file = "foo2")
> unlink(c("copy1", "copy2"), recursive = TRUE)
>
> file.copy(c("foo1", "foo2"), c("copy1", "copy2"), copy.date = TRUE)
>
> #> Error in Sys.setFileTime(to[okay], fi$mtime) : invalid 'path' argument
>
> # But the files were still copied:
> file.exists(c("copy1", "copy2"))
> #> [1] TRUE TRUE
>
> file.copy(c("foo1", "foo2"), c("copy1", "copy2"))
> #> [1] FALSE FALSE
>
> file.copy(c("foo1", "foo2"), c("copy1", "copy2"), copy.date = TRUE)
> #> [1] FALSE FALSE
>
> file.copy(c("foo1", "foo2"), c("copy1", "copy2"), copy.date = TRUE,
> overwrite = TRUE)
> #> Error in Sys.setFileTime(to[okay], fi$mtime) : invalid 'path' argument
>
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