Copy folder recursive in R

Question

Am I missing something in the functions?
I want to copy a folder with some files and another subfolder from one location to another. I tried to use file.copy(from, to,

Answer 1

Ok, I just figured out what the error means... :-) I have to create the new directory in advance and now I can copy everything...

dir.create('new_folder')
file.copy("my_folder", "new_folder", recursive=TRUE)

This works as expected.