Check out the various help pages on string manipulation: help.search(keyword = "character", package = "base")
and particularly ?sub, ?substr and ?regex On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jim Bouldin <jrboul...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > Is there a way to capure all, or part, of a filename and assign it to an > object. Say I wanted to read in a file tiled "example.txt" and then assign > the character string "example" (or "exa" or any other substring of > "example" for that matter), to object a. Is there a simple way to do so? > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > Jim Bouldin > Research Ecologist > Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis > Davis CA, 95616 > 530-554-1740 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
