'Create several folders in a directory with a loop to write the names R

I am trying to create several subfolder in a parent folder. I created this code but it does not create my subfolders. I would like to create subfolders in the folder "xxxx".

setwd<- "path/xxxx"
subfolder_names<- (a, b, c, d) 
for (j in1: length(subfolder_names)){
folder<-dir.create("path/xxxx/", paste(j))}

Thanks in advance for your suggestion.

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Solution 1:[1]

Some notes:

  • Use c() to combine elements into a list and add quotations (") around the strings to make sure R sees them as data and not variables.
  • Make sure that "in" and "1:" in the for loop statement are separated by a space and "1:" and "length()" are adjacent to one another.
  • In the for loop, paste0 can be used to concatenate two strings. Here we concatenate both the directory and the subfolder name from the subfolder_names list we created.

subfolder_names <- c("a","b","c","d") 
for (j in 1:length(subfolder_names)){
  folder<-dir.create(paste0("path/xxxx/",subfolder_names[j]))
}

Solution 2:[2]

Based on the comment above, I have this and it works.

subfolder_names <- c("a","b","c","d") 

for (j in seq_along(subfolder_names)){
  folder<-dir.create(paste0("C:/Users/OGUNDEPO EZEKIEL .A/Desktop/",subfolder_names[j]))}

Solution 3:[3]

This:

base_path <- "path/xxxx"
subfolder_names <- ("a", "b", "c", "d") 

for (name in subfolder_names) {

 path <- paste0(base_path, "/", name)
 dir.create(path)

}

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