| 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.
On most platforms ‘file’ includes symbolic links, fifos and sockets.
Wildcard expansion is done by the internal code of
Sys.glob.
Wildcards will only be expanded if the system supports it.
recursive = TRUE is not supported on all platforms, and may be
ignored, with a warning.
0 for success, 1 for failure.
Not deleting a non-existent file is not a failure, nor is being unable
to delete a directory if recursive = FALSE. However, missing
values in x result are regarded as failures.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.