On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Dorte Klerke <dkle...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi I have been trying for days now to read the contents of this xml file into > R. I tried the simpler solution xmlToDataFrame, which worked on another > file, but somehow it doesn't work for this file.
> > How is this possible? How is this possible without sending us the file? EFORGOTATTACHMENT? > > Also an extra question. My filename is called something like (a new file > every day) > > BidAskCurves_DE-AU_20130425_20130424130349.xml > > The first part after the "AU" is the current date, this I can generate > automacticly but I can't generate the last since its the date, time, minute > and second of the time the data was uploaded from another party to their ftp > - where I'm getting the data. > > Is there anyway to get R to find the right file, when I can only generate > part of the file? The dir() function has a pattern argument, so you can do: dir("/myfolder",pattern="BidAskCurves_DE-AU_20130425_[0-9]*.xml") # untested to list all files that match that pattern in that folder. the pattern is a 'regular expression', so you might have to backslashify special characters, but - and _ aren't special. Barry ______________________________________________ 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.