Dear Ajay Ohri, Re:
> Dear List, > > Say I can use getwd() and setwd() to change my working directory. How can I > read in all the files within that directory using command line (like a ls() > but for the path specified) > I use this function, # functions getFolder <- function(pat) { txt=file.choose() #cat(txt,'\n') pos=0 fname=basename(txt) #cat(paste("\nFilename found is: ",fname,'\n')) foln = dirname(txt) cat(paste("\nFolder name found is: ",foln,'\n')) drtext=dir(foln, pattern=pat, full.names = TRUE) #cat('\n\n\n\n') return(drtext) } Best, Franklin Dr F. Bretschneider Dept of Biology Kruytgebouw W711 Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht The Netherlands ______________________________________________ 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.