[R] A vector or array of data frames

[Peter Dalgaard]

"michael watson (IAH-C)" <michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk> writes:

> 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...

No can do. pos[[1]] etc, however.... (pos[1] is another list, with one
element, in this case the first data frame)

x <- c("fee.dat","foe.dat","fie.dat","fum.dat")
lapply(x, read.table, header=TRUE) # or whatever is needed
 
> Kind of basic stuff I know... Sorry..


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