[R] R2.1.0: Bug in list.files

[Suresh Krishna]

Is that the entire story ? I tried this with yesterday's patched version 
(windows xp) and found:

 > list.files(getwd(),"*.txt",full=T)
Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive) :
         invalid 'pattern' regular expression

 > list.files(getwd(),'.txt',full=T)
[1] "C:/Documents and Settings/suresh/BDE_SysInfo.txt"
[2] "C:/Documents and Settings/suresh/dxva_sig.txt"

Replacing "*.txt" with '*.txt' seems to do "something".

-s.


Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Steve Roberts wrote:
> 
>> R2.0.1 (MS Windows)
>>
>>
>>> list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T)
>>
>>
>> [1] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/gnlm_0.1.zip"
>> [2] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/lms2_0.2.zip"
>>
>>
>> R2.1.0:
>>
>>
>>> list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T)
>>
>>
>> Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive) : 
>>         invalid 'pattern' regular expression
> 
>  >
> 
>> Bug? or have I missed something
> 
> 
> You missed to read the NEWS that tells you:
> 
>     o   The regular expression code is now based on that in glibc 2.3.3.
>     It has stricter conformance to POSIX, so metachars such as
>     { } + * may need to be escaped where before they did not
>     (but could have been).
> 
> 
> Probably you want
> 
>  list.files(pattern = "\\.zip$", full.names = TRUE)
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
>> Steve.
>>   Dr Steve Roberts   steve.roberts at manchester.ac.uk
>>
>> Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics,
>> CMMCH NHS Trust and University of Manchester Biostatistics Group,
>> 0161 275 5192/5764 / 0161 276 5785
>>
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