Copy folders from one directory to another in R

r file directory copying
Karan Pappala picture Karan Pappala · Jul 27, 2015 · Viewed 25.9k times · Source

I have two folders (say "A","B") which are in a folder (say "Input"). I want to copy "A" and "B" to another folder (say "Output"). Can I do this in R?

Answer

Huang Chen picture Huang Chen · Jul 27, 2015

Copying your current directory files to their new directories

currentfiles is a list of files you want to copy newlocation is the directory you're copying to

If you aren't listing your current files, you'll need to loop through you're working directory

file.copy(from=currentfiles, to=newlocation, 
          overwrite = TRUE, recursive = FALSE, 
          copy.mode = TRUE)

This is for deleting your old files

file.remove(currentfiles)

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