list.files | R Documentation |
These functions produce a character vector of the names of files or directories in the named directory.
list.files(path = ".", pattern = NULL, all.files = FALSE, full.names = FALSE, recursive = FALSE, ignore.case = FALSE, include.dirs = FALSE, no.. = FALSE) dir(path = ".", pattern = NULL, all.files = FALSE, full.names = FALSE, recursive = FALSE, ignore.case = FALSE, include.dirs = FALSE, no.. = FALSE) list.dirs(path = ".", full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE)
path |
a character vector of full path names; the default
corresponds to the working directory, |
pattern |
an optional regular expression. Only file names which match the regular expression will be returned. |
all.files |
a logical value. If |
full.names |
a logical value. If |
recursive |
logical. Should the listing recurse into directories? |
ignore.case |
logical. Should pattern-matching be case-insensitive? |
include.dirs |
logical. Should subdirectory names be included in recursive listings? (They always are in non-recursive ones). |
no.. |
logical. Should both |
A character vector containing the names of the files in the specified directories (empty if there were no files). If a path does not exist or is not a directory or is unreadable it is skipped.
The files are sorted in alphabetical order, on the full path
if full.names = TRUE
.
list.dirs
implicitly has all.files = TRUE
, and if
recursive = TRUE
, the answer includes path
itself
(provided it is a readable directory).
dir
is an alias for list.files
.
File naming conventions are platform dependent. The pattern matching works with the case of file names as returned by the OS.
On a POSIX filesystem recursive listings will follow symbolic links to directories.
Ross Ihaka, Brian Ripley
file.info
, file.access
and files
for many more file handling functions and
file.choose
for interactive selection.
glob2rx
to convert wildcards (as used by system file
commands and shells) to regular expressions.
Sys.glob
for wildcard expansion on file paths.
basename
and dirname
, useful for splitting paths
into non-directory (aka ‘filename’) and directory parts.
list.files(R.home()) ## Only files starting with a-l or r ## Note that a-l is locale-dependent, but using case-insensitive ## matching makes it unambiguous in English locales dir("../..", pattern = "^[a-lr]", full.names = TRUE, ignore.case = TRUE) list.dirs(R.home("doc")) list.dirs(R.home("doc"), full.names = FALSE)
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