Extract files from multiple folders in R

szmple 0
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I have a directory full of folders Like this, and in each of those folders is a .tsv file I need to extract to a different directory (so that all the files in the folders are together in one folder)

My idea was to write a for loop in R which would get a list with all files in root directory, open those, copy the .tsv file to the new location

it would look something like this:

Files <- list.files("directory")
directory1 <- "root directory"
directory2 <- "place they need to go"
for (i in files){
file.copy(from = directory1,
          to = directory2)}

this however does not work.

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1 Answers

You're not using i in the loop so that's part of the problem. Try

for (i in files){
  file.copy(from = file.path(directory1, i),
            to = file.path(directory2, i))
}
MrFlick0
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