using R to copy files

Question

As part of a larger task performed in R run under windows, I would like to copy selected files between directories. Is it possible to give within R a command like cp p

Answer 1

You can

• use system() to fire off a command as if it was on shell, incl globbing
• use list.files() aka dir() to do the globbing / reg.exp matching yourself and the copy the files individually
• use file.copy on individual files as shown in mjv's answer