How to remove a directory in R?

Question

After some research I found out that the following works:

unlink(\"mydir\")

and you have to use the recursive option in case you w

Answer 1

Here's a wrapper function for you if you really need to see an error msg:

.unlink <- function(x, recursive = FALSE, force = FALSE) {
  if (unlink(x, recursive, force) == 0)
    return(invisible(TRUE))
  stop(sprintf("Failed to remove [%s]", x))
}