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

as @matifou says in the comments, the accepted answer by the questioneer himself is a bit confusing, because you end up with the copied folder inside a folder with the same name as the copied folder... to avoid this, do this instead:

case: you want to move folder_X to folder_Z.

# create empty folder Z inside folder X
dir.create('(...)/folder_X/folder_Z')
# copy the folder
file.copy('(...)/path_to_folder_Z', '(...)/folder_X')

so the second argument to file.copy shold be just folder_X, and not the newly created folder_Z inside folder_X.

Because if you do that, the folder structure will be like this, which is probably not what you want:

(...)/folder_X/folder_Z/folder_Z

(Maybe this will save somebody the 10 minutes or so it took me to figure out)