Hi Jim, You might also want to see ?list.files() for a quick way to get the filenames in the first place, and then you can manipulate them using the functions Gabor suggested.
-Ista On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.
