[R] R2.1.0: Bug in list.files

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Note that sfsmisc::glob2rx is a handy function that will convert glob style
wildcard expressions to regular expressions.  

On 5/12/05, Steve Roberts <steve.roberts at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes I missed the NEWS entry - or rather didn't realise its significance.
> So the "bug" was in the previous version and my old code which worked
> but shouldn't have.
> 
> Thanks for the replies - rapid and to the point as usual.
> 
> Steve.
> 
> Date sent:              Thu, 12 May 2005 10:45:03 +0200
> From:                   Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
> Organization:           Fachbereich Statistik, Universitaet Dortmund
> To:                     steve.roberts at manchester.ac.uk
> Copies to:              R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:                Re: [R] R2.1.0: Bug in list.files
> 
> > Steve Roberts wrote:
> >
> > > R2.0.1 (MS Windows)
> > >
> > >
> > >>list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T)
> > >
> > > [1] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/gnlm_0.1.zip"
> > > [2] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/lms2_0.2.zip"
> > >
> > >
> > > R2.1.0:
> > >
> > >
> > >>list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T)
> > >
> > > Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive)
> > > :
> > >         invalid 'pattern' regular expression
> >  >
> > > Bug? or have I missed something
> >
> > You missed to read the NEWS that tells you:
> >
> >      o   The regular expression code is now based on that in glibc
> >      2.3.3. It has stricter conformance to POSIX, so metachars such as
> >      { } + * may need to be escaped where before they did not (but
> >      could have been).
> >
> >
> > Probably you want
> >
> >   list.files(pattern = "\\.zip$", full.names = TRUE)
> >
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> >
> > > Steve.
> > >   Dr Steve Roberts
> > >   steve.roberts at manchester.ac.uk
> > >
> > > Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics,
> > > CMMCH NHS Trust and University of Manchester Biostatistics Group,
> > > 0161 275 5192/5764 / 0161 276 5785
> > >
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> 
>  Dr Steve Roberts
>  steve.roberts at manchester.ac.uk
> 
> Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics,
> CMMCH NHS Trust and University of Manchester Biostatistics Group,
> 0161 275 5192/5764 / 0161 276 5785
> 
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