[R] wildcards and removing variables

[Roger D. Peng]

In R 2.2.0, there is the function 'glob2rx()' which can be used for this 
purpose.  As in

rm(list = ls(pattern = glob2rx("results*")))

-roger

Afshartous, David wrote:
> 	All,
> 
> 	Is there are a wildcard in R for varible names as in unix?  For example,
> 
> 	rm(results*)
> 
> 	to remove all variable or function names that begin w/ "results"?  
> 
> 	cheers,
> 	Dave
> 	ps - please respond directly to afshar at miami.edu 
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