[R] writing to the screen and extra "0"

[Thomas Grzybowski]

Hi.

list.files(pattern = "*")

gives me output with the R list indices at the left of each line on the 
screen.  I want only file names.

Thanks!
Tom Grzybowski


On 07/01/2013 02:55 PM, Rui Barradas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Try instead
>
>
> list.files(pattern = "*")
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 01-07-2013 19:23, Thomas Grzybowski escreveu:
>>
>> I am using the "write" function like so (R 3.0.1 on linux):
>>
>> "wrt" <-
>> function()
>> {
>>      write(system("ls *"),file="")
>> }
>>
>> When the files are listed to the screen with wrt(), there is a "0"
>> character prepended to the output on the screen.  Worse, when I remove
>> the 'file=""' argument to "write", a file named "data" is created in my
>> default directory, with a zero in it.
>>
>> All I am trying to do is output the "ls" of files in my directory,
>> without any extra characters or type-attribute information. Thanks for
>> your help!
>>
>> Thomas Grzybowski
>>
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