Do you have some symbolic links that make loops in your file system? list.files() has problems with such loops and find does not. E.g., on a Linux box:
% cd /tmp % mkdir dir dir/subdir % cd dir/subdir % ln -s ../../dir linkToUpperDir % cd /tmp % R --quiet > list.files("dir", recursive=TRUE, full=TRUE) [1] "dir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir/subdir/linkToUpperDir" > system("find dir") dir dir/subdir dir/subdir/linkToUpperDir Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of Jonathan Greenberg > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:13 PM > To: r-help > Subject: [R] Error: C stack usage is too close to the limit when using > list.files() > > R-helpers: > > I'm running a file search on my entire drive (Mac OS X) using: > > files_found <- > list.files(dir="/",pattern=somepattern,recursive=TRUE,full.names=TRUE) > where somepattern is a search pattern (which I have confirmed via a > unix "find / -name somepattern" only returns ~ 3 results). > > I keep getting an error: > > Error: C stack usage is too close to the limit > > when running this command. Any ideas on 1) how to fix this or 2) if > there is an alternative to using list.files() to accomplish this > search without resorting to an external package? > > Cheers! > > --jonathan > > > -- > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Assistant Professor > Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory > Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > 259 Computing Applications Building, MC-150 > 605 East Springfield Avenue > Champaign, IL 61820-6371 > Phone: 217-300-1924 > http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.