> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Luanna
> Dixson
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 6:39 PM
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Suggestions for vectorizing/double loop
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks very much for your help! You are correct i
Hi all,
Thanks very much for your help! You are correct in thinking the list is the
same as before, actually, my question was more about how to do the next
steps, where I needed to match the filenames of the files in my directory
with old (i.e current) and new file name prefixes in my list. For ea
1:28 PM
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> Subject: [R] Suggestions for vectorizing/double loop
>
> I need to rename a bunch of files, by searching for string matches in a list.
> Each list element containings a character with the old filename that I want to
> match to, and the new fil
Dear Luanna
It is not compulsory to avoid for loops but see below
On 23/01/2017 12:28, Luanna Dixson wrote:
I need to rename a bunch of files, by searching for string matches in a
list. Each list element containings a character with the old filename that
I want to match to, and the new file nam
Dear Luanna,
Assuming that oldnames and newnames are character (and not factor), the
just use stringsAsFactors = FALSE. That will save you from having to
convert the factors back to character.
data.frame(oldnames, newnames, stringsAsFactor = FALSE)
Best regards,
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut v
I need to rename a bunch of files, by searching for string matches in a
list. Each list element containings a character with the old filename that
I want to match to, and the new file name that I want to rename by.
For instance, here filename '1001.xls' should match to list[[1]]$oldname
and I want
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