Try the dir() function.

?dir

# for example
dir("c:/", pattern="foo.pdf", full.names=T, ignore.case=T, recursive=T)

Jean


Tyler Rinker wrote on 08/25/2011 11:54:28 AM:
> 
> I am not a programmer and am self-taught so I may lack the
> language to ask this appropriately (perhaps why an rseek search was 
> unfruitful).
> 
> Let's say I saved a file to my desktop called foo.pdf.  Then I want 
> R to return the file path of
> foo.pdf (pretend I don't know the location(path) of foo.pdf).
> 
> Question: How would I get R to return the unknown file path for
> foo.pdf.
> 
> I hypothesize that the find find.package() function code contains
> the secret for doing this but am unable to parse out the snippet to do 
so.
> 
> I attempted file.path("foo.pdf")
> 
> which R returns [1] "foo.pdf"  #not what I want
> 
> ===========================================
> 
> R version 2.14 beta
> 
> Windows 7
> 
> Reproducible code is not appropriate for this query
> 
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