[R] renaming an object

[Torsten Hothorn]

> 
> Say I have a file called exp.batch which contains 2 cols
> The first col contains names of R objects the user would like to use.
> The second col contains the file names which will be read in using
> read.table
> i.e. exp.batch may look like this.....
> 
> name1	complex/filename/path1.txt
> name2   complex/filename/path2.txt
> name3	complex/filename/path3.txt
> name4   complex/filename/path4.txt
> 
> I want to have a function which will read in the files and make them into
> the objects named in the 1st column - automatically (by just providing
> exp.batch)
> 

for the setup above (a simple numbering of files) I would use paste:

datname <- paste("name", 1:4, sep="")
filename <- paste("mypath/file", 1:4, sep="")
data <- list()                        
for (i in filename)
        data <- c(data, read.table(file=i))
names(data) <- datname                               

data$name1 gives access to the data of file "file1"

Torsten 

> for(i in 1:nrow(exp.batch)){
> tmp<-read.table(as.name(exp.batch[i,2]),...)
> ##
> ##But now I really want tmp to be   as.name(exp.batch[i,1])???
> ## so that I can call the data from complex/filename/path1.txt
> ## by typing name1 
> }
> In  the end I should have objects name1, name2, name3, name4
> which are the names stored in the 1st column of exp.batch
> 
> The basic idea is having to avoid typing out all this!
> 
> name1<-read.table("file1",....)
> name2<-read.table("file2",....)
> ..
> ..
> ..
> nameN<-read.table("fileN",...)
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Natalie
> 
> 
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