How to delete temporary folders under Windows using R?

Question

After the session, I would like to clear my temporary folders, for example,

d <- tempfile() dir.create(d) setwd(d) # now work and sweave and latex etc 

How to remove d and its elements? file.remove does not work.

Answer 1

Try unlink("d", recursive=TRUE) . This should remove the folder and its contents.

Answer 2

Try ?unlink . Depends on what you use, but this:

 unlink(d, recursive=TRUE) 

Must work. If you want to delete the contents and reuse the folder, you can try the following:

 file.remove(dir(d, full.names=TRUE))