[R] meta characters in file path
Li,Qinghong,ST.LOUIS,Molecular Biology
Qinghong.Li at rdmo.nestle.com
Fri Aug 4 22:05:37 CEST 2006
thanks Prof Ripley. dir() returns the path with full names (wildcards replaced) that are exactly what I need.
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Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:27 PM
To: Li,Qinghong,ST.LOUIS,Molecular Biology
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Tony Plate
Subject: Re: [R] meta characters in file path
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Li,Qinghong,ST.LOUIS,Molecular Biology wrote:
> Thanks. I tried them, it works for most of those characters except "*"
> and "?".
Those are not valid characters in Windows file paths
(/ " * : < > ? \ | are invalid in file or dir names).
> Does regular expression work in file names in windows?
No, and I think you may mean wildcards (which is what work on the command
line).
> e.g. I have a machine-generated file named "021706 matrix#1479 @50.csv",
> of which "1479" is kinda random. Will I be able to match "1479" with
> some sort of "wild card" chars?
Yes, use dir(), with regexp pattern patching to find the name(s) you
want. glob2rx() might be useful here.
> Thanks
> Johnny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Plate [mailto:tplate at acm.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:42 PM
> To: Li,Qinghong,ST.LOUIS,Molecular Biology
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] meta characters in file path
>
>
> What is the problem you are having? Seems to work fine for me running
> under Windows2000:
>
> > write.table(data.frame(a=1:3,b=4:6), file="@# x.csv", sep=",")
> > read.csv(file="@# x.csv")
> a b
> 1 1 4
> 2 2 5
> 3 3 6
> > sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets"
> [7] "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> XML
> "0.99-8"
> >
>
> Li,Qinghong,ST.LOUIS,Molecular Biology wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to read in some files. The file names contain come meta characters such as @, #, and white spaces etc, In read.csv, file= option, is there any way that one can make the function to recognize a file path with those characters?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Johnny
> >
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