[R] Copy and Rename Folder in same directory

Archit Soni soni.archit1989 at gmail.com
Mon May 8 13:14:30 CEST 2017


No Ben, I want to copy the contents and have the original file is as master
file.

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Ben Tupper <btupper at bigelow.org> wrote:

> My eye gets drawn immediately to file.rename() - did you give that a shake?
>
>
>
> On May 8, 2017, at 6:59 AM, Archit Soni <soni.archit1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Ben,
>
> I tried this,
>
> # identify the folders
> current.folder <- "C:/Where my files currently live"
> new.folder <- "H:/Where I want my files to be copied to"
>
> # find the files that you want
> list.of.files <- list.files(current.folder, "SDM\\.tif$",full.names=T)
>
> # copy the files to the new folder
> file.copy(list.of.files, new.folder)
>
> But i am still getting FALSE and files are not getting copied from the
> folder. However,if I give a single file name it copies that file to new
> folder.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Archit Soni <soni.archit1989 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ben. :)
>>
>> On May 8, 2017 16:06, "Ben Tupper" <btupper at bigelow.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Checkout all of the functions for file/directory management under
>>> ?files  (note the plural).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> > On May 8, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Archit Soni <soni.archit1989 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Forgive me to ask this kind of naive question.
>>> >
>>> > But it would be of immense help if you could help me suggesting a way
>>> to
>>> > copy a folder in the same directory and paste it in the same directory
>>> with
>>> > different name.
>>> >
>>> > Ex:
>>> >
>>> > C:/Folder A -- C:/Folder A_B
>>> >
>>> > Contents should be copied as is.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for reading and thanks in advance!
>>> >
>>> > Archit
>>> >
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>
> --
> Regards
> Archit
>
>
> Ben Tupper
> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
> 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380
> East Boothbay, Maine 04544
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