From dmurdoch at pair.com  Tue Nov 25 13:58:58 2003
From: dmurdoch at pair.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Tue Nov 25 13:57:37 2003
Subject: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:27:46 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>
>Perhaps the dir= and pattern= arguments could be combined so that 
>its not necessary to for list.files to paste them together:
>
>  list.files("C:/a*.txt", glob=T)

Why not use system() or shell() instead?  Those explicitly do what ls
or dir would do.

Duncan Murdoch


[Rd] Question about Unix file paths
Duncan Murdoch