[R] list.files accessing subdirectory as relative path?

[Frede Aakmann Tøgersen]

Hi

".." is the parent directory whereas "." is the current directory, so you probably want

list.files(path = "./Least Developed Countries")

instead of

list.files(path = "../Least Developed Countries")

Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen


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> Subject: [R] list.files accessing subdirectory as relative path?
> 
> Dear list members,
> 
> I would like to access a subdirectory given where the work directory has
> been set. So I have:
> 
> > getwd()
> [1] "C:/Users/Lord Adellus/Dropbox/I8child1/Data"
> 
> > list.files() # give three folders
>  [1] "Least Developed Countries"
>  [4] "Low middle income grouping"                         "More advanced
> developing countries and territories"
> 
> > list.files(path = "../Least Developed Countries") # I want to access now
> > one of the subdirectories
> character(0)
> 
> But as you can see R does not want to look into the specified subdirectory.
> I have tried several combination and searched the list but without any great
> success.
> 
> Actually:
> 
> list.files(path = "../...") #goes up one level in the folder structure so I
> cannot see what the problem is.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Adel
> 
> 
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