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R.filesets (version 2.15.1)

indexOf.GenericDataFileSet: Finds indices of a subset of files

Description

Finds indices of a subset of files whose names match a given set of names or name patterns.

Usage

# S3 method for GenericDataFileSet
indexOf(this, patterns=NULL, by=c("exact", "regexp", "fixed"), ...,
  onMissing=c("NA", "error"))

Value

Returns an integer

vector of length K with elements in [1,*length()] or (integer) NA (for non-matched names).

Arguments

patterns

A character vector of length K of names and/or regular expressions to be matched.

by

A character vector specifying how and in what order the name matching is done.

...

Not used.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

Details

If an element of patterns contains a comma, then that element is matched against the *getFullNames(), otherwise it is matched against *getNames(). First each pattern is matched by regular expression rules, and if there is not match, then by fixed strings.

See Also

*getNames() For more information see GenericDataFileSet.