Has any mentioned ?make.names
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Wincent <ronggui.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I said, the file name is derived automatically from text processing. > Thanks all the same. > > On 10 May 2012 20:35, Upton, Stephen (Steve) (CIV) <scup...@nps.edu> wrote: >> Why not just construct a valid file name and use that in cat? You can then >> use >> file.path to join paths together if you want to write to a specific location, >> as in your example. >> >> steve >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On >> Behalf Of Wincent >> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:15 AM >> To: Tal Galili >> Cc: r help >> Subject: Re: [R] file path >> >> Hmm, I don't think it gives what I want. >> >> For example, I assign a file name to f, >>> f <- "a?b.txt" >>> file.path("e:",f) >> [1] "e:/a?b.txt" >> >> The resultant character is not accepted as a file name by Windows OS. >> >> On 9 May 2012 20:32, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Wincent, >>> Have a look at: >>> ?file.path >>> >>> >>> >>> ----------------Contact >>> Details:------------------------------------------------------- >>> Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: >>> www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | >>> www.r-statistics.com (English) >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Wincent <ronggui.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear all, is there any function to assert whether a file path is >>>> legitimate, and to convert any potential file path to a legitimate >>>> file path? >>>> >>>> I automate a batch of files and write them to plain text files with >>>> cat(). The file argument of cat() is generated automatically which >>>> may contain characters such as ? < >, unacceptable in Windows OS. >>>> What I do at this moment is to strip such characters off with gsub(). >>>> Is there any direct way to make legitimate file path without detailed >>>> knowledge about the naming rule specific to a OS? >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Wincent Ronggui HUANG >>>> Sociology Department of Fudan University PhD of City University of >>>> Hong Kong http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/rghuang/cv/ >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Wincent Ronggui HUANG >> Sociology Department of Fudan University PhD of City University of Hong Kong >> http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/rghuang/cv/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > Wincent Ronggui HUANG > Sociology Department of Fudan University > PhD of City University of Hong Kong > http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/rghuang/cv/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.
