Hi Thomas,
If you put the list.files statement inside the write function you won't
have the indices.
Try:
write(list.files(pattern="*"), file="my_files.txt")
Cheers,
Charles
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Thomas Grzybowski <
thomasgrzybow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> list.files(pattern = "*")
>
> gives me output with the R list indices at the left of each line on the
> screen. I want only file names.
>
> Thanks!
> Tom Grzybowski
>
>
> On 07/01/2013 02:55 PM, Rui Barradas wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Try instead
>>
>>
>> list.files(pattern = "*")
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Rui Barradas
>>
>> Em 01-07-2013 19:23, Thomas Grzybowski escreveu:
>>
>>>
>>> I am using the "write" function like so (R 3.0.1 on linux):
>>>
>>> "wrt" <-
>>> function()
>>> {
>>> write(system("ls *"),file="")
>>> }
>>>
>>> When the files are listed to the screen with wrt(), there is a "0"
>>> character prepended to the output on the screen. Worse, when I remove
>>> the 'file=""' argument to "write", a file named "data" is created in my
>>> default directory, with a zero in it.
>>>
>>> All I am trying to do is output the "ls" of files in my directory,
>>> without any extra characters or type-attribute information. Thanks for
>>> your help!
>>>
>>> Thomas Grzybowski
>>>
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