[R] Process dataframes from list

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 22:17:55 CET 2008


You might want to have a look at the plyr package -
http://had.co.nz/plyr.  The intro pdf describes a couple of problems
that are similar to yours.

Hadley

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Wade Wall <wade.wall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have roughly fifty dataframes and a dataframe with the names of the fifty
> dataframes. I want to perform the same set of manipulations on all fifty
> dataframes, but can't find a way to batch process from a list with the
> dataframe names using a loop.  Is there a way to read the file names from
> the dataframe with the names and then call the referenced dataframe?  This
> would save me a lot of typing.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Wade
>
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