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[Duncan Murdoch]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:14:17 +0300, Timur Elzhov
<Timur.Elzhov at jinr.ru> wrote :

>  flist <- system("ls *.dat", intern = TRUE)

That's not portable (Windows doesn't necessarily have ls).
list.files() is the portable function to do this.

If you want to be Windows-only non-portable, then choose.files() is a
bit more friendly than list.files().

Duncan Murdoch