[Rd] Question about Unix file paths

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:27:46 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>
>Perhaps the dir= and pattern= arguments could be combined so that 
>its not necessary to for list.files to paste them together:
>
>  list.files("C:/a*.txt", glob=T)

Why not use system() or shell() instead?  Those explicitly do what ls
or dir would do.

Duncan Murdoch