[R] R for copying and pasting selected image files?

[Romain Francois]

Kim Milferstedt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to use R to process a list of text strings. The text 
> strings are filenames, encoding experimental settings. Based on the 
> information in there I'd like to select certain files and copy only 
> the selected files to another directory.
>
> The files are images and there is no need, actually no desire, to 
> open them. Is there a way to use R for copying and pasting files with 
> any file extension to another directory without opening them?
>
> Thanks already for any help,
>
> Kim
>
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>
> Kim Milferstedt
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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> Urbana, IL 61801
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>   
Hi Kim,

Try to have a look at :

R> apropos("copy")
R> ?file.copy

Cheers,

Romain

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