[R] Scan a folder for a given type of files

[Gábor Csárdi]

Sebastien,

see ?list.files, especially the 'pattern' argument. For your
particular case it is

list.files(pattern="\\.txt$")

You might want to use the 'ignore.case' argument as well.

Gabor

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:53 PM,  <pomchip at free.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Dear R-users,
>
> I have found on the list several posts addressing the issue of getting data for
> a list of defined files. However, I found nothing about scanning a given folder
> and retrieving the list of, let's say, .txt files (I probably used the wrong
> keywords). Could someone tell me which posts or function help I should look at?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Sebastien
>
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