[R] R2.1.0: Bug in list.files

[Uwe Ligges]

Suresh Krishna wrote:

> 
> Is that the entire story ? I tried this with yesterday's patched version 
> (windows xp) and found:
> 
>  > list.files(getwd(),"*.txt",full=T)
> Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive) :
>         invalid 'pattern' regular expression
> 
>  > list.files(getwd(),'.txt',full=T)
> [1] "C:/Documents and Settings/suresh/BDE_SysInfo.txt"
> [2] "C:/Documents and Settings/suresh/dxva_sig.txt"
> 
> Replacing "*.txt" with '*.txt' seems to do "something".

No! Replacing "*.txt" with ".txt" does something (you do not intend)!

Please read about regular expressions (!!!) and try to understand that
".txt" also finds "Not_a_txt_file.xls" ....

Uwe Ligges


> -s.
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
>> Steve Roberts wrote:
>>
>>> R2.0.1 (MS Windows)
>>>
>>>
>>>> list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/gnlm_0.1.zip"
>>> [2] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/lms2_0.2.zip"
>>>
>>>
>>> R2.1.0:
>>>
>>>
>>>> list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive) 
>>> :         invalid 'pattern' regular expression
>>
>>
>>  >
>>
>>> Bug? or have I missed something
>>
>>
>>
>> You missed to read the NEWS that tells you:
>>
>>     o   The regular expression code is now based on that in glibc 2.3.3.
>>     It has stricter conformance to POSIX, so metachars such as
>>     { } + * may need to be escaped where before they did not
>>     (but could have been).
>>
>>
>> Probably you want
>>
>>  list.files(pattern = "\\.zip$", full.names = TRUE)
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>> Steve.
>>>   Dr Steve Roberts   steve.roberts at manchester.ac.uk
>>>
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