[R] loop and read.table

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Dec 26 15:07:45 CET 2003


On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, lefebure tristan wrote:

> I would like to open several tables with a loop, using something like :
> -----------------
> $ ls
> 1.txt		2.txt		3.txt		4.txt
> $ R
> > for (i in 1:4)  tabi<-read.table("i.txt")

Use read.table(paste(i, "txt", sep="."))

> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file `i.txt'
> ------------------

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