[R] Output multiple files

[Muhammad Rahiz]

Code works fine. Thanks!

Muhammad Rahiz  |  Doctoral Student in Regional Climate Modeling
Climate Research Laboratory, School of Geography & the Environment	
Oxford University Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1865-285194	 Mobile: +44 (0)7854-625974
Email: muhammad.rahiz at ouce.ox.ac.uk



David Winsemius wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Muhammad Rahiz wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want the ouput to take the name of the original file. I have the  
>> following code - but the problem is that the output overrides the  
>> original file which I desire not.
>>
>> So given an input file called File1.txt, I want the ouput to be  
>> called File1.out.txt, or something along this line. I'm working with  
>> many files, fyi.
>>
>> out=c("file1.txt", "file2.txt", "file3.txt")
>>     
>
> Take a look at this:
>
>  > paste(strsplit(out[1], "\\.")[[1]][1], "out.txt", sep=".")
> [1] "file1.out.txt"
>
>   
>> for (i in 1:3){               # where 3 is the number of files
>> file[[i]] <- file[[i]] * 3   # just a simple calculation to multiply  
>> the matrix by 3
>> write.table(file[[i]],out[i], row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE)
>>     
>
> perhaps something like this (untested in absence of data) :
>
> write.table(file[[i]],file=paste(strsplit(out[i], "\\.")[[1]][1],  
> "out.txt", sep="."), row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE)
> }
>
>   
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- 
>> Muhammad Rahiz  |  Doctoral Student in Regional Climate Modeling					
>> Climate Research Laboratory, School of Geography & the Environment	
>> Oxford University Centre for the Environment
>> South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom Tel: +44  
>> (0)1865-285194	 Mobile: +44 (0)7854-625974
>> Email: muhammad.rahiz at ouce.ox.ac.uk
>>
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>
> David Winsemius, MD
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