[Rd] Choose.files to give shortnames
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Mar 26 18:52:07 CEST 2006
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, P Ehlers wrote:
> Would
>
> basename(choose.files())
>
> work for your usage?
> Still, a full.names argument might be useful.
I don't think so, as you can change directory in choose.files(), unlike
dir().
> Peter Ehlers
>
> Brooks, Anthony B wrote:
>
>> I am writing a script to generate a QC report for some data based on a
>> number of files. I am currently using the choose.files function to
>> select the files as not all the files need to be QC'd. One minor issue
>> is that choose.files returns the complete path of the filename (eg
>> "C:/QCdata/Test1/File01", "C:/QCdata/Test1/File02"...). Is it possible
>> to use choose.files to return just the file name eg("File01",
>> "File02"...), in a way similar to the full.names=FALSE argument in the
>> dir function.
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