I do not understand the question. If you already know the names what is the problem to select the files by names?
If you have the names but not inside of R you have to find a name pattern to avoid typing them in. Is there a pattern, e.g. da.txt, db.txt, dc.txt? On 08 Nov 2013, at 18:33, Zilefac Elvis <zilefacel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have 300 .txt files in a directory. Out of this 300, I need just 100 of the > files. > I have the names of the 100 .txt files which are also found in the 300 .txt > files. > How can I extract only the 100 .txt files from the 300 ,txt files? > > e.g given d1.txt, ds.txt, dx.txt, df.txt...d300.txt, how can I select only > d1.txt and df.txt? Remember, I have 300 of such and want to extract 100 of > them with names known. > > Thanks for your great help. > Atem. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
