[R] Reading multiple files into R

[Witold Eryk Wolski]

Hi!
There is a function ?dir which returns you the content of the dir_ectory.
If this is more then there is a function ?grep which allows you to 
extract relevant items.
If you need to postprocess the names you have a function ?paste for example.
And finally you have an S language construct for(){}
And there is help.search() and An Introduction to R to which tells you 
how to write functions.

/E



Vikas Rawal wrote:

> I want to read data from a number of files into R.
> Reading individual files one by one requires writing enormous amount 
> of code that will look something like the following.
>
> ****************
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-01vc.dbf")->dist1
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-02vc.dbf")->dist2
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-03vc.dbf")->dist3
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-04vc.dbf")->dist4
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-05vc.dbf")->dist5
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-06vc.dbf")->dist6
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-07vc.dbf")->dist7
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-08vc.dbf")->dist8
> maptools:::dbf.read("wb-09vc.dbf")->dist9
> *****************
>
> Is there a better way of doing this?
>
> Vikas
>
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