R devel - Mar 2006 - Choose.files to give shortnames

Hi
I am writing a script to generate a QC report for some data based on a number of
files. I am currently using the choose.files function to select the files as not
all the files need to be QC'd. One minor issue is that choose.files returns
the complete path of the filename (eg "C:/QCdata/Test1/File01",
"C:/QCdata/Test1/File02"...). Is it possible to use choose.files to
return just the file name eg("File01", "File02"...), in a
way similar to the full.names=FALSE argument in the dir function.

Thanks
Tony



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Would

basename(choose.files())

work for your usage?
Still, a full.names argument might be useful.

Peter Ehlers

Brooks, Anthony B wrote:
> Hi
> I am writing a script to generate a QC report for some data based on a
number of files. I am currently using the choose.files function to select the
files as not all the files need to be QC'd. One minor issue is that
choose.files returns the complete path of the filename (eg
"C:/QCdata/Test1/File01", "C:/QCdata/Test1/File02"...). Is
it possible to use choose.files to return just the file name
eg("File01", "File02"...), in a way similar to the
full.names=FALSE argument in the dir function.
> 
> Thanks
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
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Brooks, Anthony B wrote:

 > Hi
 > I am writing a script to generate a QC report for some data based on 
a number of files. I am currently using the choose.files function to 
select the files as not all the files need to be QC'd. One minor issue 
is that choose.files returns the complete path of the filename (eg 
"C:/QCdata/Test1/File01", "C:/QCdata/Test1/File02"...). Is
it possible
to use choose.files to return just the file name eg("File01", 
"File02"...), in a way similar to the full.names=FALSE argument in the
dir function.
 >
 > Thanks
 > Tony


 > basename(choose.files())

Best,

Philippe Grosjean