hdfs.ls

Lists the names of all HDFS directories containing data in the specified path.

Usage

hdfs.ls(dfs.path)

Arguments

dfs.path

A path relative to the current default path. The default path is the current working directory.

Return Value

A list of data object names in HDFS, or NULL if the specified path is invalid

See Also

hdfs.cd

Example

This example lists the subdirectories in the current directory:

R> hdfs.ls()
[1] "ontime_DB"   "ontime_FILE"   "ontime_R"

The next example lists directories in the parent directory:

R> hdfs.ls("..")
[1] "demo"   "input"   "output"   "sample"   "xq"

This example returns NULL because the specified path is not in HDFS.

R> hdfs.ls("/bin")
NULL