From sdorairaj at gmail.com  Sat May  2 14:27:33 2009
From: sdorairaj at gmail.com (Sundar Dorai-Raj)
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 05:27:33 -0700
Subject: [Rd] dir.create does not return a value (PR#13686)
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Not a bug. Try:

print(dir.create("foo"))

or

foo <- dir.create("foo")
foo

HTH,

--sundar

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:10 AM,  <r.hijmans at gmail.com> wrote:
> ?dir.create ?(part of the base package) says that:
> "dir.create and Sys.chmod return a logical vector indicating which
> operation succeeded for each of the files attempted"
>
> However, on my system it returns nothing ?(whether successful or not):
>
>> dir.create(":::@!#!::")
>> dir.create('b')
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
>>
>
> HTH, Robert
>
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[Rd] dir.create does not return a value (PR#13686)
Sundar Dorai-Raj