[R] Deleting a file on a drive from within R

Sergey Goriatchev sergeyg at gmail.com
Thu May 20 10:57:28 CEST 2010


Thank you, Dave!

Regards,
Sergey

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:55, Dave Deriso <dderiso at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> file_to_delete = file.choose()
> file.remove(file_to_delete)
>
> Best,
> Dave Deriso
> UCSD Psychology
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an Excel file on a drive and I extract data from it into R session.
>> Once I have extracted the data, I want to delete that Excel file from the drive.
>> Can I do that from within R, please?
>>
>> Thank you for help!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sergey
>>
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