Hi ".." is the parent directory whereas "." is the current directory, so you probably want
list.files(path = "./Least Developed Countries") instead of list.files(path = "../Least Developed Countries") Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen Frede Aakmann Tøgersen Specialist, M.Sc., Ph.D. Plant Performance & Modeling Technology & Service Solutions T +45 9730 5135 M +45 2547 6050 fr...@vestas.com http://www.vestas.com Company reg. name: Vestas Wind Systems A/S This e-mail is subject to our e-mail disclaimer statement. Please refer to www.vestas.com/legal/notice If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender. > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Adel > Sent: 5. maj 2014 21:30 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] list.files accessing subdirectory as relative path? > > Dear list members, > > I would like to access a subdirectory given where the work directory has > been set. So I have: > > > getwd() > [1] "C:/Users/Lord Adellus/Dropbox/I8child1/Data" > > > list.files() # give three folders > [1] "Least Developed Countries" > [4] "Low middle income grouping" "More advanced > developing countries and territories" > > > list.files(path = "../Least Developed Countries") # I want to access now > > one of the subdirectories > character(0) > > But as you can see R does not want to look into the specified subdirectory. > I have tried several combination and searched the list but without any great > success. > > Actually: > > list.files(path = "../...") #goes up one level in the folder structure so I > cannot see what the problem is. > > > Thanks in advance. > Adel > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/list-files- > accessing-subdirectory-as-relative-path-tp4689997.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
