How to obtain a list of directories within a directory, like list.files(), but instead “list.dirs()”

Question

This may be a very easy question for someone - I am able to use list.files() to obtain a list of files in a given directory, but if I want to get a list of director

Answer 1

base R now includes a list.dirs function, so home-brewed variants are no longer necessary.

For example:

list.dirs('.', recursive=FALSE)