If you want to type in the names by hand, you can simply use read.table to load them into R … I still don’t get the aim of your text file handling
On 08 Nov 2013, at 18:51, Zilefac Elvis <zilefacel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > All files are text files. They are found in a folder on my computer. > Assume that I know the names of some of the files I want to select from the > 300 txt files. > How can I do this in R. > Atem. > > > On Friday, November 8, 2013 11:44 AM, Simon Zehnder <szehn...@uni-bonn.de> > wrote: > I do not understand the question. If you already know the names what is the > problem to select the files by names? > > If you have the names but not inside of R you have to find a name pattern to > avoid typing them in. Is there a pattern, e.g. da.txt, db.txt, dc.txt? > > > On 08 Nov 2013, at 18:33, Zilefac Elvis <zilefacel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have 300 .txt files in a directory. Out of this 300, I need just 100 of > > the files. > > I have the names of the 100 .txt files which are also found in the 300 .txt > > files. > > How can I extract only the 100 .txt files from the 300 ,txt files? > > > > e.g given d1.txt, ds.txt, dx.txt, df.txt...d300.txt, how can I select only > > d1.txt and df.txt? Remember, I have 300 of such and want to extract 100 of > > them with names known. > > > > Thanks for your great help. > > Atem. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > ______________________________________________ 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.
