Aloha all, In the example below, note that the R representation of the directory listing escapes the quotes in the original and encloses it all in a second set of quotes, e.g. "\"theta-1.csv\"". This must come up a lot. Is there an idiomatic way to change "\"theta-1.csv\"" to "theta-1.csv" so that it could be assigned to x and the following statement would yield a valid path? afile <- paste("r/",x,sep="") I'm aware the answer might be R code, but it is to tightly tied to org- babel I figure it makes sense to ask the question here. All the best, Tom --------------- Example ------------------- *** Dated events #+srcname: thetas() #+begin_src shell cd r && ls theta* #+end_src #+results: thetas | "theta-1.csv" | | "theta-2.csv" | ... #+srcname: test-list(x = thetas) #+begin_src R :session str(x) x #+end_src #+results: test-list | "theta-1.csv" | | "theta-2.csv" | ... tdye> str(x) 'data.frame': 8 obs. of 1 variable: $ V1: chr "\"theta-1.csv\"" "\"theta-2.csv\"" "\"theta-3.csv\"" "\"theta-4.csv\"" ... Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D. T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc. Phone: (808) 529-0866 Fax: (808) 529-0884 http://www.tsdye.com