On 10/24/2013 9:13 AM, Thaler,Thorn,LAUSANNE,Applied Mathematics 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.
In addition, or instead of, suggestions for plotting a file structure as a tree, you might consider a treemap (package of same name), which
was designed to show this more compactly, using nested rectangles showing, e.g., file sizes or other attributes. HTH -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods York University Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street Web: http://www.datavis.ca Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA ______________________________________________ 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.
