Re: [R] regexpr syntax question

2008-10-01 Thread jim holtman
Do it in a two step process since you want the negation. > x <- c('file1.xyz', 'file2.xml', 'file3.abc') > x[-grep("xml$", x)] [1] "file1.xyz" "file3.abc" > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:33 AM, zack holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings R list, > > I am stuck on a simple syntax problem. I

[R] regexpr syntax question

2008-09-30 Thread zack holden
Greetings R list, I am stuck on a simple syntax problem. I want to list all files in a directory, excluding files of a certain type. I have tried pattern matching as follows: a <- list.files(data, full.name = TRUE, pattern != ".xml") # exclude all .xml files The warning returns that