Jean, Thank you. It's slow but it works. dir("C:/", pattern="plotrix.pdf",
full.names=T, ignore.case=T, recursive=T) Does anyone have a faster way? If
it helps using: shell.exec("search-ms://query=plotrix.pdf") utilizes
windows's search bar to find the file (this is quick), however it opens a
screen that finds the file rather than providing me with the search path. For
a look at what that looks like on a windows machine click here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-search
I'm thinking there's a way to use this method to extract the path even faster
than dir(). TylerTo: tyler_rin...@hotmail.com
CC: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
From: jvad...@usgs.gov
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:19:37 -0500
Try the dir() function.
?dir
# for example
dir("c:/", pattern="foo.pdf",
full.names=T, ignore.case=T, recursive=T)
Jean
Tyler Rinker wrote on 08/25/2011 11:54:28 AM:
>
> I am not a programmer and am self-taught so I may lack the
> language to ask this appropriately (perhaps why an rseek search was
> unfruitful).
>
> Let's say I saved a file to my desktop called foo.pdf. Then
I want
> R to return the file path of
> foo.pdf (pretend I don't know the location(path) of foo.pdf).
>
> Question: How would I get R to return the unknown file path for
> foo.pdf.
>
> I hypothesize that the find find.package() function code contains
> the secret for doing this but am unable to parse out the snippet to
do so.
>
> I attempted file.path("foo.pdf")
>
> which R returns [1] "foo.pdf" #not what I want
>
> ===========================================
>
> R version 2.14 beta
>
> Windows 7
>
> Reproducible code is not appropriate for this query
>
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