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listDirectory

Gets the file names in the directory

Description

Gets the file names in the directory.

Contrary to list.files(), this method guarantees to work recursively. Moreover, when subdirectories are processed recursively, directory names are also returned.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
listDirectory(path=".", pattern=NULL, recursive=FALSE, allNames=FALSE, fullNames=FALSE,
  ...)

Arguments

`path`	A path to be listed.
`pattern`	A `character` string of the filename pattern passed. See `list.files`() for more details.
`recursive`	If `TRUE`, subdirectories are recursively processed, and not if `FALSE`. Alternatively, the maximum recursive depth can be specified as a non-negative `numeric`, where `FALSE` corresponds to `0L` depth and `TRUE` corresponds `+Inf` depth.
`allNames`	If `TRUE`, also files starting with a period are returned.
`fullNames`	If `TRUE`, the full path names are returned.
`...`	Not used.

Value

Returns a vector of file names.

Recursive searching

Recursive searching of directory structure is done breath-first in a lexicographic order.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson