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R: get a list of short file names (filenames) for all files in a directory
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In R, you can retrieve the short file names (also known as 8.3 filenames) for all files in a directory using the dir
function with the shortNames
parameter set to TRUE
. Here's an example:
R# Set the directory path
directory <- "path/to/directory"
# Get the short file names of all files in the directory
fileNames <- dir(directory, shortNames = TRUE)
# Print the short file names
print(fileNames)
In this example, replace "path/to/directory"
with the actual path to your target directory. The dir
function is used to retrieve the file names in the directory, and the shortNames
parameter is set to TRUE
to request short file names.
After running the code, the fileNames
variable will contain a character vector of short file names for all files in the directory. You can further process or use this list as needed in your R script.