Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0902060855520.30978@tajo.ucsd.edu>
Date: 2009-02-06T17:10:07Z
From: Charles C. Berry
Subject: R Package to Dir structure and Folder Analysis?
In-Reply-To: <329390.55808.qm@web56004.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Jason Rupert wrote:
> I'm using R on Windows and wondering if there is an R package that
> allows you to do folder structure analysis.
> ?Specifically, I would like to grab the name, file size, type,?and
> creation data of files within a folder and then to means and sigmas on
> the file size and creationdation date.
> ?
The posting guide has lot of suggestions about how to solve a problem like
this under the 'do you homework' heading.
However, you don't really need to go even that far.
Recent versions of R have tab completion.
So take a guess as to what function might help you out, type the first few
characters, then hit tab once (or maybe twice) and see what pops up. Then
put a '?' in front of that function name and check the help page.
Using some of the words in your 'Specifically, ...' sentence, I tried
this. Some of them did not complete, some completed but were obviously not
what you were after, and some were highly suggestive. Oh yes, one led to
a function that seemed like an obvious winner and the example on its help
page comes very close to solving your problem.
Enjoy!
Chuck
> Thank you again for your insights.
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Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098
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