getRegistrySubKeyNames     package:SWinRegistry     R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This gets the names of the sub-keys, i.e. the folders within a
     registry key. It does not return the names of the value entries
     within the key.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getRegistrySubKeyNames(path = "", top = .BuiltinKeys[1])

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    path: identifier for the key of interest

     top: the top-level key in the registry  in which to resolve the
          path. This effectively identifies the branch in the registry
          tree.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A character vector giving the names of the subkeys within this key
     that are themselves keys,  and not  simply values.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     <URL: http://www.omegahat.org/SWinRegistry>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'getRegistryKeyValues'

     '.resolveToplevelRegistryKey'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

       # Names of all the applications registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE.
      getRegistrySubKeyNames("SOFTWARE", top = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE")

       # Find all class UUIDs for the COM definitions in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
      getRegistrySubKeyNames("CLSID")

