Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, mel wrote: > >> access networked PCs directories/files with R ? >> >> Dear group, >> >> I would like to know if there is an "easy" way to access several >> networked PCs directories/files from one PC with R ? >> Concerned OS is windows. >> >> I can for instance use dir() on my current PC. >> Is there a way to do dir() on a connected PC ? >> (Is there a special syntax for the path ?) > > If it works at all, the usual syntax will work. E.g. > >> dir("\\\\reeve\\temp") > [1] "biblio.tex" "R" > > (that's \\reeve\temp, the share \temp on machine 'reeve'). > >> (read.table() or readLines() work with URLs >> I imagine it may also work on connected shared PCs) > > No, because MS has not implemented the RFC1738 for URLs to apply to > remote machines. See ?url.
Hi Brian and Romain Many thanks for both answers. Both work nicely. Thanks Vincent ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.