Sebastien, see ?list.files, especially the 'pattern' argument. For your particular case it is
list.files(pattern="\\.txt$") You might want to use the 'ignore.case' argument as well. Gabor On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear R-users, > > I have found on the list several posts addressing the issue of getting data > for > a list of defined files. However, I found nothing about scanning a given > folder > and retrieving the list of, let's say, .txt files (I probably used the wrong > keywords). Could someone tell me which posts or function help I should look > at? > > Thanks in advance > > Sebastien > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Gabor Csardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ 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.