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LivingstoneM
LivingstoneM

Reputation: 1088

List files starting with given name in subdirectories R

I have a directory containing 70 other sub-directories with different CSV files. CSV files in each directory look like this Modified2-3.csv, added2_3.csv, Retired4_5.csv. My end result is to join all CSV starting with the name Modified but before that How can I loop through all subdirectories selecting only files starting with modified

I have tried this method but it says the character is zero

list.files(pattern = "^Modified.*name.csv")

I do want my result is a list of modified CSV looking like this Modified2_3.csv, Modified3_4.csv,Modified7_8.csv

Upvotes: 1

Views: 406

Answers (1)

Jarn Schöber
Jarn Schöber

Reputation: 319

You should be able to go through them without a loop with the use of list.files()'s recursive argument.

list.files(pattern = "^Modified", recursive=TRUE)

Upvotes: 3

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