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

[Berend Hasselman]

On 01-07-2013, at 21:03, Thomas Grzybowski <thomasgrzybowski at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

cat(list.files(pattern = "*"),sep="\n")

Berend

> 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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