Copy all the files in a directory to a new directory using R

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Someone asked me how to move a directory full of files from one place to another using R.  The easiest way I’ve found is as follows (where “oldpath” is the existing directory and “newpath” is the new directory):

file.copy(list.files(oldpath),newpath)

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