[R] list.files, recursively

[Jannis]

Thanks, Rui and Jim, for your replies. I tried to post this question to 
r.devel but its admin told me that the question rather belongs into 
r-help. Thanks, Jim, for your suggestion. I have already constructed 
something similar. I posted my question to suggest modifying the 
function so that not everybody has to program his own workaroung.

So, lets see whether this convinces the people reponsible for these base 
functions.


Cheers
Jannis

On 18.11.2012 19:02, Rui Barradas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I believe that's a question for r-devel, but good point. It's
> docummented that in non-recursive calls to list.files subdirectory names
> are always included. (With a typo, "There always are" instead of "They
> always are".)
>
> Rui Barradas
> Em 18-11-2012 17:20, Jannis escreveu:
>> Dear R developers,
>>
>>
>> as far as I understand the manual of list.files(), there is only a way
>> to exclude directories from the returned vector if you use list.files
>> recursively. In non recursive mode, there seems to be no way of
>> excluding directories (the include dirs argument does not seem to have
>> any effect). Would it not be more intuitive and practical to allow the
>> switching off of directory names in both cases?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Jannis
>>
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