[R] Automatic file reading

[Uwe Ligges]

Anders Malmberg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to do automatic reading of a number of tables (files) stored in 
> ascii format
> without having to specify the variable name in R each time.  Below is an 
> example
> of how I would like to use it (I assume files pair1,...,pair8 exist in 
> spec. dire.)
> 
> for (i in 1:8){
>  name <- paste("pair",i,sep="")
>  ? ? ? <- read.table(paste("/home/andersm/tmp/",name,sep=""))
> }

pairlist <- vector(8, mode = "list")
for (i in 1:8){
   name <- paste("pair",i,sep="")
   pairlist[[i]] <- read.table(paste("/home/andersm/tmp/",name,sep=""))
}

or use assign(), but you don't want to do that really.

Uwe Ligges




> after which I want to have pair1,...,pair8 as tables.
> 
> But I can not get it right. Anybody having a smart solution?
> 
> Best regards,
> Anders Malmberg
> 
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