Extracting from zip, removing certain file extensions

On 29/11/2011 8:36 AM, Mathew Brown wrote:

Hi there,
I'm running R on windows 7 with Rstudio. Everyday I receive a zip file
where  a bunch of half-hourly files are zipped together.
I then use
xx=unzip(ind)
to get xx, which consists of :

[1] "./2011/A20112961503.flx" "./2011/A20112961503.log" 
"./2011/A20113211730.slt" "./2011/A20113211800.slt" 
"./2011/A20113211830.slt" "./2011/A20113211900.slt"
   [7] "./2011/A20113211930.slt" "./2011/A20113212000.slt" 
"./2011/A20113212030.slt" "./2011/A20113212100.slt" 
"./2011/A20113212130.slt" "./2011/A20113212200.slt"
[13] "./2011/A20113212230.slt" "./2011/A20113212300.slt" 
"./2011/A20113212330.slt" "./2011/A20113220000.slt" 
"./2011/A20113220030.slt" "./2011/A20113220100.slt"
[19] "./2011/A20113220130.slt" "./2011/A20113220200.slt" 
"./2011/A20113220230.slt" "./2011/A20113220300.slt" 
"./2011/A20113220330.slt" "./2011/A20113220400.slt"
[25] "./2011/A20113220430.slt" "./2011/A20113220500.slt" 
"./2011/A20113220530.slt" "./2011/A20113220600.slt" 
"./2011/A20113220630.slt" "./2011/A20113220700.slt"
[31] "./2011/A20113220730.slt" "./2011/A20113220800.slt" 
"./2011/A20113220830.slt" "./2011/A20113220900.slt" 
"./2011/A20113220930.slt" "./2011/A20113221000.slt"
[37] "./2011/A20113221030.slt" "./2011/A20113221100.slt" 
"./2011/A20113221130.slt" "./2011/A20113221200.slt" 
"./2011/A20113221230.slt" "./2011/A20113221300.slt"
[43] "./2011/A20113221330.slt" "./2011/A20113221400.slt" 
"./2011/A20113221430.slt" "./2011/A20113221500.slt" 
"./2011/A20113221530.slt" "./2011/A20113221600.slt"
[49] "./2011/A20113221630.slt" "./2011/A20113221700.slt" 
"./2011/A20113221730.slt"

What I want is to keep all the slt files and remove the other file 
types. How do I remove all the non slt files from xx? I want this to 
be automated so I don't have to state the entire file name each time.

Use a regular expression:

xx <- grep("slt$", xx, value=TRUE)

If you want to do more complicated matching, read ?glob2rx or ?regexp.

Duncan Murdoch