[R] process all files ending in *.dat

[Thomas Lumley]

On 13 Aug 2001, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Paul E Johnson <pauljohn at ukans.edu> writes:
>
> > I tried
> > mydat<-system("ls *.dat")
> > but mydat does not catch the return.
> > Thanks for your many helps in the past...
>
> You might want to read the help page for system() with some attention
> to the "intern" argument...

Or just use the list.files() function, which is portable across operating
systems.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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