[R] Error: C stack usage is too close to the limit when using list.files()

[Berend Hasselman]

On 27-09-2013, at 21:50, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Ben:
> 
> I'd like to avoid using that (previous version of my code solved it in
> that way) -- I would like cross-platform compatibility and I am pretty
> sure, along with Windows, vanilla Macs don't come with "find" either
> unless XCode has been installed.
> 

As far as I can tell Mac OS X provides a find utility (the Unix version). It is not part of Xcode.

Berend

> Is the list.files() code itself recursive when using recursive=TRUE
> (so it has one recursion per bottom-folder)?
> 
> --j
> 
> P.S. I recognized that in my initial post I indicated using "dir" as
> the parameter -- it should have been "path" (the error occurred
> through the correct usage of list.files(path="/",...)   That'll teach
> me not to copy/paste from my code...
> 
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn <at> illinois.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> 
>>> R-helpers:
>>> 
>>> I'm running a file search on my entire drive (Mac OS X) using:
>>> 
>>> files_found <-
>> list.files(dir="/",pattern=somepattern,recursive=TRUE,full.names=TRUE)
>>> where somepattern is a search pattern (which I have confirmed via a
>>> unix "find / -name somepattern" only returns ~ 3 results).
>>> 
>>> I keep getting an error:
>>> 
>>> Error: C stack usage is too close to the limit
>>> 
>>> when running this command.  Any ideas on 1) how to fix this or 2) if
>>> there is an alternative to using list.files() to accomplish this
>>> search without resorting to an external package?
>> 
>>  I assuming that using
>> 
>> system("find / -name somepattern")
>> 
>> (possibly with intern=TRUE) isn't allowed?  (I don't know what you're
>> trying to do, but if you don't need it to work on Windows-without-cygwin,
>> this should work across most Unix variants (although a "-print" might
>> be required)
>> 
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> 
> 
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