| unlink {base} | R Documentation |
unlink deletes the file(s) or directories specified by x.
unlink(x, recursive = FALSE)
x |
a character vector with the names of the file(s) or directories to be deleted. Wildcards (normally ‘*’ and ‘?’) are allowed. |
recursive |
logical. Should directories be deleted recursively? |
If recursive = FALSE directories are not deleted,
not even empty ones.
file.remove can only remove files, but gives more
detailed error information.
Wildcard expansion is done by Sys.glob.
The return value of the corresponding system command, rm -f,
normally 0 for success, 1 for failure.
Not deleting a non-existent file is not a failure.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.