Instead of changing the order in which you read the files, perhaps your
analysis will work if you sort the data after you read it in. This may require
that you add the month names as a column in the data frames, or you may already
have dates in the data that you could sort by.
One idea:
fnames <- paste0( month.name, ".PDF" )
resultdf <- do.call( rbind, lapply(fnames, function(fn) { read.csv( file.path(
"datadir", fn ), as.is=TRUE ) } )
but that only works if there are exactly 12 files. If there could be fewer,
perhaps:
fnames <- list.files( "datadir" )
sfnames <- fnames[ match( sub("\\.PDF", "", fnames ), month.name ) ]
On October 9, 2018 6:44:21 AM PDT, Ek Esawi <esaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi All--
>
>I used base R list.file function to read files from a directory. The
>file names are months (April, August, etc). That's the system reads
>them in alphabetical order., but i want to reordered them in calendar
>order (January, February, ...December).. I thought i might be able to
>do it via RegEx or possibly gtools package, I am wondering if there is
>an easier way.
>
>Thanks--EK
>
>Example
>path = "C:/Users/name/Downloads/MyFiles"
>file.names <- dir(path, pattern =".PDF")
>
>Example output
>Output:
>"February.PDF" "January.PDF" "March.PDF"
>Desired output
>"January.PDF" "February.PDF" "March.PDF"
>
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