[R] get a vector with filenames with a certain extension in a folder

[Peter Dalgaard]

milton ruser wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> try this:
> 
> setwd("/home/mcr")
> dir(path=".", pattern=".txt$")
> 
> OR
> 
> dir(path="/home/mcr/.", pattern=".txt$")
> 
> $ means finished with ".txt"

A word of warning. The pattern is a regular expression, so the above 
means that the name ends with an arbitrary character followed by "txt".

pattern=glob2rx("*.txt")

is more likely to do what you want.


> good luck,
> 
> milton
> brazil=toronto
> 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:08 AM, torpedo fisken <torpedofisken at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> I got a script that works on file with the extension ".qed" that are
>> al located in a folder '~/works/'
>>
>> Is there are R function that will fetch all the filenames from the works
>> subdir,
>> similar to
>> 'ls ~/works/*.qed'
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
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