Files function

Textual file system browser

Files(root=getwd(), multiple=FALSE, hidden=FALSE)

Arguments

• root: Root directory to explore, default is the working directory
• multiple: Allows multiple files to be selected
• hidden: Show hidden files?

Details

Interactive text-based file chooser dialog, modified from code published by "mathematical.coffee" on Stack Overflow as "R command-line file dialog".

If 'multiple=TRUE', one can select files one by one (they will "disappear" from the displayed list), and typing "0" will output this list. If "multiple=FALSE", typing "0" will output the name of the current directory.

Files() uses normalizePath() so symbolic links will be resolved. Also, Files() is not very useful when number of files in the directory is large.

Alternatives for Linux: 'tcltk::tk_choose.files()' and 'tcltk::tk_choose.dir()'

Returns

Returns character vector of selected files, or directory name (useful for 'setwd()'), or new user-defined file name with full path.

Author(s)

Alexey Shipunov

See Also

setwd, getwd, dir

Examples

## Not run:

## interactive commands
setwd <- Files() # then select directory to work in
Files("~", hidden=TRUE) # explore home directory with hidden files (Linux, macOS)
## End(Not run)