[R] Remove

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Emmanuel Paradis wrote:

> At 13:49 07/03/01 +0100, Alvaro Colina Santamaria wrote:
> >Stephanie Langevin wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to remove some files which have the extension  .test for
> >> example (data1.test, data2.test ....).
> >> Is there another solution to remove them instead of doing it one by one
> >> ?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help,
> >> Stéphanie Langevin
> >>
> >>
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> >You can use:
> >
> >rm(list=objects(pattern=".test"))
>
> I understood that Stéphanie wanted to remove files on her system, not R
> objects from R's workspace. Thus I suggested:
>
> 	system("rm *.test")
>
> (assuming a Unix/Linux OS)

There's no need to make OS assumptions

unlink(list.files(pattern="\\.test"))

will delete files whose names contain .test (the pattern is a regular
expression  -- I can't remember offhand how to specify that it ends in
.test)

	-thomas

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