The combination of list.files(), gsub() and file.rename() should to the trick.
ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus/ Statistician Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance thierry.onkel...@inbo.be Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussel www.inbo.be /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [image: Van 14 tot en met 19 december 2017 verhuizen we uit onze vestiging in Brussel naar het Herman Teirlinckgebouw op de site Thurn & Taxis. Vanaf dan ben je welkom op het nieuwe adres: Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel.] <https://overheid.vlaanderen.be/mobiliteitsplan-herman-teirlinckgebouw> Van 14 tot en met 19 december 2017 verhuizen we uit onze vestiging in Brussel naar het Herman Teirlinckgebouw op de site Thurn & Taxis. Vanaf dan ben je welkom op het nieuwe adres: Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <https://www.inbo.be> 2017-09-28 11:37 GMT+02:00 John <miao...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I have 50 files whose names are > > XYZW01Genesis_ABC.mp3 > XYZW02Genesis_ABC.mp3 > ....... > XYZW50Genesis_ABC.mp3 > > As you can tell, the only difference across the files are 01, 02, > 03,....50. > > I would like to rename them to > 01Gen01.mp3 > 01Gen02.mp3 > ....... > 01Gen50.mp3 > > If I store them in one folder and write an R code in that folder, how can > it be done? > > Thanks, > > John > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
