On 6/9/05, Hans-Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear R-Users,
>
> I have two questions:
>
> a)
> in a directory there are 3 files:
> [1] "Data.~csv" "Kopie von Data.~csv" "VorlageTradefile.csv"
>
> The command "dir( fold, pattern = "\.csv" )" gives back *all* the 3 files
> With dir( fold, pattern = "\\.csv" ) I get back only VorlageTradefile.csv.
> I don't understand this behaviour, IMHO the regex expression "\.csv"
> becomes the string ".csv" and "\\.csv" becomes "\.csv". So the first
> string should catch it. This is also consistent with the result when I
> tried with the TRegExpr Tool. Could somebody explain what's going on
> here?
The dot (.) is a wildcard that matches any character so .csv will
match the ~csv since the . matches the ~.
By the way, note that
1. "[.]csv" is one way to specify a literal dot without using backslashes
2. you probably want "[.]csv$" so that a.csv.txt is not matched.
3. Some regular expression functions have a fixed= argument that
causes them to regard all special characters like . and * as regular
characters but unfortunately dir lacks that argument.
>
> b)
> I need to handle a copied windows file path. This is certainly often
> asked but I didn't find a solution.
> How can I convert, e.g.
>
> myfile <- "D:\UebungenNDK\DataMining\DataMiningSeries.r"
Variable myfile, as you have written it above, has no backslashes in it
so there is no way way to know where they are supposed to be. Maybe \
what you mean is that you have a variable that is _stored_ as:
D:\UebungenNDK\...etc..
In that case its already the same as myfile <- "D:\\UebungenNDK\\...etc.."
Use nchar to check how many characters are stored.
e.g.
nchar("D:\\abc") # there are 6, not 7, characters in this string
> in either:
>
> myfile
> [1] "D:\\UebungenNDK\\DataMining\\DataMiningSeries.r"
>
> or:
> myfile
> [1] "D:/UebungenNDK/DataMining/DataMiningSeries.r"
>
> Would be great to hear about a possibility!
You can convert backslashes to forward slashes using gsub
gsub("\\", "/", "D:\\abc", fixed = TRUE)
Note that internally Windows understands forward slashes
although many of the Windows commands do not.
In case I did not understand your question have a look at ?file.path
and also ?glob2rx in package sfsmisc. The first one will construct
paths and the second one allows you specify wildcards using globbing
instead of regular expressions.
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