Thank you all. Bill's original idea worked well. I did not realize that i had to paste the full dir name to the correctly ordered file. Once that was done it did work well. I will try REUI's idea and i think Jeff's idea of rearranging the output after extracting the tables might work and i will try it and see.
Thank you all. EK On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 9:44 AM 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" ______________________________________________ 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.