On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 10:37 -0400, Afshartous, David wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Is there are a wildcard in R for varible names as in unix? For example,
>>
>> rm(results*)
>>
>> to remove all variable or function names that begin w/ "results"?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Dave
>> ps - please respond directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> See ?ls, which has a 'pattern' argument, enabling the use of Regex to
> define the objects to be listed and subsequently removed using rm().
>
> You can then use something like:
>
> rm(list = ls(pattern = "\\bresults."))
One new feature of R-2.2.0 is glob2rx, which converts wildcards to regexps
for you. E.g.
rm(list = ls(pattern = glob2rc("results*")))
(I think if does it a little better, as that trailing dot is not I think
correct: result* matches result.)
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