[R] list.files, recursively

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Sun Nov 18 19:02:27 CET 2012


Hello,

I believe that's a question for r-devel, but good point. It's 
docummented that in non-recursive calls to list.files subdirectory names 
are always included. (With a typo, "There always are" instead of "They 
always are".)

Rui Barradas
Em 18-11-2012 17:20, Jannis escreveu:
> Dear R developers,
>
>
> as far as I understand the manual of list.files(), there is only a way 
> to exclude directories from the returned vector if you use list.files 
> recursively. In non recursive mode, there seems to be no way of 
> excluding directories (the include dirs argument does not seem to have 
> any effect). Would it not be more intuitive and practical to allow the 
> switching off of directory names in both cases?
>
>
> Thanks a lot
> Jannis
>
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