[R] Checking for similar file names in two different directories

Bert Gunter bgunter@4567 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Thu Dec 26 19:48:49 CET 2019


?list.files and ?regexp

Warning: following obviously untested:

Gfiles <- list.files("G:", pattern = ".*10806\\.xls$")

should then give you a vector of character names of the files you want to
feed to read.xls() or whatever function exists in the favored package is
for reading Excel files these days.

Cheers,
Bert



On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 9:54 AM Thomas Subia <tsubia using imgprecision.com>
wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> I have two locations where my data resides.
> One folder is for data taken under treatment A
> One folder is for data taken under treatment B
>
> "G:\ 0020-49785 10806.xls"
> "Q:\ 301864 4519 10806.xls"
>
> Here the 10806 is the part which is common to both directories.
>
> Is there a way to have R extract parts common to both directories?
>
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