Find a Prefix Based on Names of Existing Files
Find the prefixes or suffixes of files with a given suffix or prefix in a directory.
findPrefix(suffix,path=".") findSuffix(prefix,path=".")
suffix |
character vector of suffixes |
prefix |
character vector of prefixes |
path |
directory to look for files in |
The function findPrefix locates all files in a directory that end with
one of the provided suffixes; where as findSuffix locates all files
that start with the given prefixes.
A character vector of all the prefixes or sufixes of files in the working directory that matched to one of the given suffixes.
Anisa Egeli, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo BC
local(envir=.PBSmodEnv,expr={
edir = system.file("examples", package="PBSmodelling")
print(findPrefix(suffix=c(".txt", ".r"),path=edir)); cat("\n")
#or use R's dir for similar functionality
print(dir(pattern="txt$",path=edir)); cat("\n")
print(dir(pattern="^[a-h]",path=edir)); cat("\n")
})Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.