If 'foo' is a subdirectory of the current working directory, then list.files('foo') lists the files in foo.
".." goes up one level But you did not want to go up one level. You wanted to stay at the same level. (also, '...' has no meaning in pathnames) Try either of list.files(path = "./Least Developed Countries") list.files(path = "Least Developed Countries") -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 5/5/14 12:29 PM, "Adel" <adel.da...@sociology.gu.se> wrote: >Dear list members, > >I would like to access a subdirectory given where the work directory has >been set. So I have: > >> getwd() >[1] "C:/Users/Lord Adellus/Dropbox/I8child1/Data" > >> list.files() # give three folders > [1] "Least Developed Countries" > [4] "Low middle income grouping" "More advanced >developing countries and territories" > >> list.files(path = "../Least Developed Countries") # I want to access now >> one of the subdirectories >character(0) > >But as you can see R does not want to look into the specified >subdirectory. >I have tried several combination and searched the list but without any >great >success. > >Actually: > >list.files(path = "../...") #goes up one level in the folder structure so >I >cannot see what the problem is. > > >Thanks in advance. >Adel > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/list-files-accessing-subdirectory-as-relativ >e-path-tp4689997.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >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.