list.files()

List the Files in a Directory/Folder

The

These functions produce a character vector of the names of files or directories in the named directory.

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Usage
list.files(path = ".", pattern = NULL, all.files = FALSE,
           full.names = FALSE, recursive = FALSE,
           ignore.case = FALSE, include.dirs = FALSE, no.. = FALSE)
       dir(path = ".", pattern = NULL, all.files = FALSE,
           full.names = FALSE, recursive = FALSE,
           ignore.case = FALSE, include.dirs = FALSE, no.. = FALSE)
list.dirs(path = ".", full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE)

Instruction

Copy and Run the sample code in your Rstudio to see how list.files() and list.dirs() function works.

DO NOT CLICK RUN

list.files() list.dirs()

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