Search for a pattern within text files — search_files • eclectic

Returns names of files whose text contains a pattern

Usage

search_files(pattern, files, return.path = FALSE)

Arguments

pattern: Case sensitive pattern to look for
files: Text files to search (e.g., .R, .txt...)
return.path: Include full file name path? Logical. Default is FALSE

See also

readLines, grep

Examples

#files<-list.files(path="...",full.names=TRUE, recursive = TRUE)
#files<-files[grep('.R',files)]
#search_files('some text',files)