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

[Uwe Ligges]

Romain Francois wrote:

> Le 12.05.2005 10:30, Steve Roberts a écrit :
> 
>> 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
>>
>>  
>>
> That has something to do with regexpr, try someting like :
> 
>> list.files(myloc,"\\\\*.zip",full=T)

Which also finds the file "unzip.exe".
Please, folks, do read about regular expressions!

Uwe Ligges


> 
> Romain
> 
>> Steve.
>>  Dr Steve Roberts  steve.roberts at manchester.ac.uk
>>
>> Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics,
>> CMMCH NHS Trust and University of Manchester Biostatistics Group,
>> 0161 275 5192/5764 / 0161 276 5785
>>
>>  
>>
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