[R] Checking existance of a directory

Rainer M Krug r.m.krug at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 13:51:57 CEST 2010


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On 29/10/10 13:08, Ron Michael wrote:
> Hi all, I am wondering is there any way to check whether some Directory exists or not, given the parent path of that directory? After searching for a while I found that there is a function dir.create() to create some directory. However I need to know whether such directory already exists or not, otherwise I will create that.

Just use

dir.create(showWarnings=FALSE)

This will create the directory if it does not exist, and do nothing if
it does. If showWarnings=TRUE, it will give you a warning that the
directory exists.

Cheers,

Rainer

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