[R] Looping through R objects

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Vivek Ayer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have 13 csv files and I want to assign each csv file to one  
> object, i.e.,
>
> bc1 <- read.csv("1.csv,header=TRUE,sep="")
> bc2 <- read.csv("2.csv,header=TRUE,sep="")
> bc3 ...
>
> So I want to create 13 objects. How could I automate this with a for  
> loop?
>
> for (i in c(1:13)) ...
>
> Any ideas?


objects <- lapply(1:13, function(i) {
   read.csv(paste(i, 'csv', sep='.'), header=TRUE, sep="")
})

-steve

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