Something like
findFile <- function(pattern, path=Sys.getenv("PATH"), split=";", ...) {
path <- unlist(strsplit(path, split=split));
list.files(path=path, pattern=pattern, full.names=TRUE, ...);
}
findFile("^expl.*[.]exe$")
findFile("^notepad[.]exe$")
Cheers
Henrik Bengtsson
Lund University, Sweden
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> >From within R (on windows) I would like to locate and invoke an
> >executable program (whose location is unknown to me).
> Can I do that?
> Thanks in advance
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