mkdirs
Creates a directory including any necessary but nonexistent parent directories
Creates a directory including any necessary but nonexistent parent directories.
- Keywords
- programming, IO
Usage
# S3 method for default
mkdirs(pathname, mustWork=FALSE, maxTries=5L, ...)Arguments
- pathname
A
characterstring of the pathname to be checked.- mustWork
If
TRUEand the directory does not already exists or is failed to be created, an error is thrown, otherwise not.- maxTries
A positive
integerspecifying how many times the method should try to create a missing directory before giving up.- ...
Not used.
Value
Returns TRUE if the directory was successfully created,
otherwise FALSE.
Note that if the directory already exists, FALSE is returned.
Slow file systems
On very rare occasions, we have observed on a large shared file
system that if one tests for the existence of a directory immediately
after creating it with dir.create(), it may appear not
to be created. We believe this is due to the fact that there is a
short delay between creating a directory and that information being
fully propagated on the file system. To minimize the risk for such
false assertions on "slow" file systems, this method tries to create
a missing directory multiple times (argument maxTries) (while
waiting a short period of time between each round) before giving up.
See Also
Internally dir.create() is used.