A wild guess -- take a look at the CRAN "phylohenetics" task view, as that sounds like the sort of thing that might have tree generation and manipulation functions.
... but you may do better with some non-R tool out there. (Hopefully, you'll get a better response, though). Cheers, Bert On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Thaler,Thorn,LAUSANNE,Applied Mathematics <thorn.tha...@rdls.nestle.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I was wondering whether (or better: how) I can use R to read recursively a > directory to get all the sub-folders and files located in the root folder and > put it into a tree like structure where the leaves are files and intermediate > nodes are the directories? The idea is that I'd like to plot the structure of > a certain root folder to be able to restructure the file system. > > Any ideas on that? I was googling a lot but apparently I did not use the > right terms ("R tree folder" or "R tree directory" takes me mainly to pages > about the "R-tree" a structure for spatial access methods [at least I learnt > something new ;)]) > > Any pointer to the right function is highly appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Thorn Thaler > NRC Lausanne > Applied Mathematics > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.