How to build a dendrogram from a directory tree?

Question

Given a root absolute directory path. How do I generate a dendrogram object of all path\'s below it so that I can visualize the directory tree with R?

Suppose the fo

Answer 1

If you are on Windows, you can use my package dir2json, by installing it like this:

drat::addRepo("stlarepo")
install.packages("dir2json")

It is also possible to use it on Linux, but there is a DLL linked to the GHC dynamic libraries, which must be installed on the system (while this DLL is standalone on Windows).

> library(dir2json)
> cat(dir2tree("src"))
src
|
`- contrib
   |
   +- PACKAGES.gz
   |
   +- PACKAGES
   |
   +- jsonAccess_0.1.1.tar.gz
   |
   +- expansions_1.2.tar.gz
   |
   `- dir2json_2.1.0.tar.gz
> cat(dir2tree("src", vertical=TRUE))
                                            src                                             
                                             |                                              
                                          contrib                                           
                                             |                                              
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------           
     /          |                 |                       |                      \          
PACKAGES.gz  PACKAGES  jsonAccess_0.1.1.tar.gz  expansions_1.2.tar.gz  dir2json_2.1.0.tar.gz

The package also contains a Shiny application which generates an interactive Reingold-Tilford tree representation of a folder:

> dir2json::shinyDirTree(".")