[R] listing files recursively

Phil Spector spector at stat.berkeley.edu
Mon Aug 30 17:08:28 CEST 2010


Hyunchul -
    You don't have to rely on the operating system to 
provide information about the file system.  Look at

?list.files

For example,

list.files('/path/to/directory',recursive=TRUE)

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Hyunchul Kim wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> how to get all filenames in a directory and its all subdirectories?
>
> something like
> filenames <- c(Sys.glob('/path/to/directory/*'),
> Sys.glob('/path/to/directory/*/*'), Sys.glob('/path/to/directory/*/*/*'),
> ...)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hyunchul
>
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