[R] A vector or array of data frames

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Feb 17 14:23:04 CET 2005


michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:

> Hi
> 
> A simple question again, but I can't find it by google-ing R-help.
> 
> Quite simply, I want to read in the contents of a number of files, using
> read.table, and assign the results to elements of a
> vector/array/list/whatever.
> 
> I want it so that, if my vector/array/whatever is "pos", that pos[1]
> will give me the first data frame, pos[2] will give me the second etc...

For sure you will find a solution! This has been answered several times.

You can have a list "pos" (where pos is a bad time which suggest to have 
something in common with environments) so that pos[[1]] is your first 
data frame etc. See ?list

Uwe Ligges




> Kind of basic stuff I know... Sorry..
> 
> Mick
> 
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