[R] Automatic File Reading [Broadcast]

[Wensui Liu]

Andy,

First of all, thanks for your solution.

When I test your code, it doesn't work. I am not sure if I miss something.

Here is the code I tested:
flist<-list.files(path = file.path(, "c:\\"),pattern="[.]csv$")
csvlist<-lapply(flist, read.csv, header = TRUE)

Here is the error:
Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open file 'test1.csv', reason 'No such file or directory'

Thank you so much!

On 10/18/06, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
> Works on all platforms:
>
> flist <- list.files(path=file.path("somedir", "somewhere"),
>                     pattern="[.]csv$")
> csvlist <- lapply(flist, read.csv, header=TRUE)
> whateverList <- lapply(csvlist, whatever)
>
> Andy
>
> From: Richard M. Heiberger
> >
> > Wensui Lui asks:
> > > is there a similar way to read all txt or csv files with same
> > > structure from a folder?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Windows I use this construct to find all files with the
> > specified wild card name.
> > I used the "\\" in the file paths with the translate=FALSE,
> > because the "/" in
> > the DOS switches "/w/B" must not be translated.  On Windows
> > this picks up
> > both lower and upper case filenames
> >
> > A similar construct can be written for Unix.
> >
> > tmp <- shell('dir c:\\HOME\\rmh\\tmp\\*.R /w/B', intern=TRUE,
> > translate=FALSE)  ##msdos
> > for (i in tmp) source(paste("c:\\HOME\\rmh\\tmp\\", i, sep=""))
> >
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