use pattern matching (regular expressions): e.g., myFileNames[grepl("slt$", myFileNames)]
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Mathew Brown <mathew.br...@forst.uni-goettingen.de> wrote: > > > Hi there, > I'm running R on windows 7 with Rstudio. Everyday I receive a zip file > where a bunch of half-hourly files are zipped together. > I then use > xx=unzip(ind) > to get xx, which consists of : > > [1] "./2011/A20112961503.flx" "./2011/A20112961503.log" > "./2011/A20113211730.slt" "./2011/A20113211800.slt" "./2011/A20113211830.slt" > "./2011/A20113211900.slt" > [7] "./2011/A20113211930.slt" "./2011/A20113212000.slt" > "./2011/A20113212030.slt" "./2011/A20113212100.slt" "./2011/A20113212130.slt" > "./2011/A20113212200.slt" > [13] "./2011/A20113212230.slt" "./2011/A20113212300.slt" > "./2011/A20113212330.slt" "./2011/A20113220000.slt" "./2011/A20113220030.slt" > "./2011/A20113220100.slt" > [19] "./2011/A20113220130.slt" "./2011/A20113220200.slt" > "./2011/A20113220230.slt" "./2011/A20113220300.slt" "./2011/A20113220330.slt" > "./2011/A20113220400.slt" > [25] "./2011/A20113220430.slt" "./2011/A20113220500.slt" > "./2011/A20113220530.slt" "./2011/A20113220600.slt" "./2011/A20113220630.slt" > "./2011/A20113220700.slt" > [31] "./2011/A20113220730.slt" "./2011/A20113220800.slt" > "./2011/A20113220830.slt" "./2011/A20113220900.slt" "./2011/A20113220930.slt" > "./2011/A20113221000.slt" > [37] "./2011/A20113221030.slt" "./2011/A20113221100.slt" > "./2011/A20113221130.slt" "./2011/A20113221200.slt" "./2011/A20113221230.slt" > "./2011/A20113221300.slt" > [43] "./2011/A20113221330.slt" "./2011/A20113221400.slt" > "./2011/A20113221430.slt" "./2011/A20113221500.slt" "./2011/A20113221530.slt" > "./2011/A20113221600.slt" > [49] "./2011/A20113221630.slt" "./2011/A20113221700.slt" > "./2011/A20113221730.slt" > > What I want is to keep all the slt files and remove the other file types. How > do I remove all the non slt files from xx? I want this to be automated so I > don't have to state the entire file name each time. > > Thanks > > > > > [[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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.