[R] How unzip all files?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 11.07.2011 10:49, AnaA wrote:
> Hi
> I'm starting to use R in windows. I need unzip some files. Each of them are
> in different folders and subfolders. Names of folders have the same
> beginning of the name. [example:( ~ / M_ /P_ (...)/ (...)R(...)/*.zip)] I do
> not know the expression (character) necessary to call this direction and to
> unzip files are in each subfolder.

I'd start to list the files as in (all untested!):

files <- list.files(path = "~/M_", recursive=TRUE, full.names=TRUE)
files <- grep("/P_/.*/.*R.*/.*\\.zip$", files, value=TRUE)

and then iterate over files and run unzip() on each file in files with 
an appropriate exdir, e.g.:

sapply(files, function(i) unzip(i, exdir=gsub("\\.zip$", "", i))


Uwe Ligges



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