[R] regular expressions in R

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 17:11:43 CET 2011


Do you wish to include .docx files as well or just .doc?

Michael

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all
> I would like to ask from dir function in R (?dir)
> to give me only the files that end with .txt or .doc.
>
> The dir functions supports the use of patterns (is not that regular expressions) for doing that.
>
>   print(dir(i,full.names=TRUE,pattern=.....))
>
> Could you please help me compose such a pattern?
>
> B.R
> Alex
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