> I run the script and it exports a PDF called "version 1". > I want it to check if "version 1" already exists. If so, > then I want the new graphs to be exported as > "version 2", and so on. > > Is it possible to do it in R?
Someone may know a way. However its certainly possible to execute a command in linus from R. So you can ls the file (in windows try dir) and see if it exists, and build a loop round that. Just bew3are it'll be quick if there is only 1 file. If you have 9999 files it may slow things down a bit! Here's my example... #Example script to check if a file exists (linux system) filename = "somefile" fileno = 0 extension= ".pdf" path="/home/user/" repeat { fullfile= paste(path,filename,fileno,extension, sep="") if (length (system(paste("ls",fullfile), intern = T)) == 0) break fileno<-fileno+1 } #your command to save the file... using 'fullfile' as the filename and path ******************************************************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential information. If yo...{{dropped:21}} ______________________________________________ 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.