[R] Reorder file names read by list.files function

[PIKAL Petr]

Hi

You could use brute force approach. Just print out "file.names" and estimate ordering vector.
In czech locale it is

oo <- c(6, 11, 1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 10, 12, 9, 7, 8)

In english locale it is different :-)

After that
file.names[oo]

should give you correct order of file names

Cheers
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Ek Esawi
> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 3:44 PM
> To: r-help using r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Reorder file names read by list.files function
>
> Hi All--
>
> I used base R list.file function to read files from a directory. The file names are
> months (April, August, etc). That's the system reads them in alphabetical order.,
> but i want to reordered them in calendar order (January, February,
> ...December).. I thought i might be able to do it via RegEx or possibly gtools
> package, I am wondering if there is an easier way.
>
> Thanks--EK
>
> Example
> path = "C:/Users/name/Downloads/MyFiles"
> file.names <- dir(path, pattern =".PDF")
>
> Example output
> Output:
> "February.PDF"  "January.PDF" "March.PDF"
> Desired output
> "January.PDF"  "February.PDF" "March.PDF"
>
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