You can do that like below:
startingDir<-"/myDirectory"
filez<-list.files(startingDir)
sapply(filez,FUN=function(eachPath){
file.rename(from=eachPath,to=sub(pattern="xxx",replacement="newTextString",eachPath))
})
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:48 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Check ?file.rename()
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10758965/how-do-i-rename-files-using-r
>
>
> A.K.
>
>
> I have list of files in folder
>
> e.g p126r62_5t19880613_nn1.tif.gz
> p126r62_5t19880613_nn2.tif.gz
> p200r65_5t19880613_nn1.tif.gz
>
> and I would like to change file name to
> LT512606219880613XX_B1.tif.gz
> LT512606219880613XX_B2.tif.gz
> LT520006519880613XX_B1.tif.gz
>
> Does any body knows how It can be changed?
>
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