[R] assigning a file name, or part of, to an object

2010-01-22 Thread Jim Bouldin
Is there a way to capure all, or part, of a filename and assign it to an object. Say I wanted to read in a file tiled example.txt and then assign the character string example (or exa or any other substring of example for that matter), to object a. Is there a simple way to do so? Thanks in

Re: [R] assigning a file name, or part of, to an object

2010-01-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out the various help pages on string manipulation: help.search(keyword = character, package = base) and particularly ?sub, ?substr and ?regex On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jim Bouldin jrboul...@ucdavis.edu wrote: Is there a way to capure all, or part, of a filename and assign it to

Re: [R] assigning a file name, or part of, to an object

2010-01-22 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Jim, You might also want to see ?list.files() for a quick way to get the filenames in the first place, and then you can manipulate them using the functions Gabor suggested. -Ista On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the various help