[R] excluding on element from a list

[Jim Lemon]

On 05/24/2010 05:40 PM, Daisy Englert Duursma wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am making a list of all the files in a folder and I want to exclude
> one file called "proj.current".  This is the 31st file in a folder.
> Currently I use the command:
>
> tdirs<- list.files(pattern="proj.")[-31]
>
> However I would like to exclude it based on its name and not the position.
>
Hi Daisy,
I think that:

file_list<-list.files(pattern="proj[.]")
tdirs<-file_list[!as.logical(match(file_list,"proj.current",0))]

should do the trick.

Jim