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

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

You can use the built in variable month.name to get the calendar order 
and match it with your file names.


i <- match(sub("\\.PDF", "", file.names), month.name)
file.names[i]
#[1] "January.PDF"  "February.PDF" "March.PDF"


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


Às 14:44 de 09/10/2018, Ek Esawi escreveu:
> 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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