[R] reading xcms files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Roberto Olivares Hernandez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using xcms library to read mass spectrum data. I generate objects 
> from CDF files using the command line
>
>>  SME10 <- xcmsRaw("SME_10.CDF")
>
> I have 50 CDF files with different name and I don't want to repeat the 
> command for each one. Is there any option to read all the files and 
> generate a corresponding object name?

Something like

for(f in Sys.glob("*.CDF")) assign(sub("\\.CDF$", "", f), xcmsRaw(f))

(untested, of course).

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