[R] for loop for file names

waltzmiester cwalte03 at shepherd.edu
Thu Jul 30 22:29:23 CEST 2009


Thanks very much for these two solutions, but they are still printing
"Pred_pres_[i]_indpdt" on the screen and not executing the function load

Chris



baptiste auguie-5 wrote:
> 
> Try this,
> 
> files = paste('pred/Pred_pres_', letters[1:6], '_indpdt',sep="")
> 
> lapply(files, load)
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> baptiste
> 2009/7/30 waltzmiester <cwalte03 at shepherd.edu>:
>>
>> I am trying to load binary files in the following fashion
>>
>> load("pred/Pred_pres_a_indpdt")
>> load("pred/Pred_pres_b_indpdt")
>> load("pred/Pred_pres_c_indpdt")
>> load("pred/Pred_pres_d_indpdt")
>> load("pred/Pred_pres_e_indpdt")
>> load("pred/Pred_pres_f_indpdt")
>>
>> but I would like to set up a for loop to replace the letters a:f
>>
>> Here is what I have so far:
>>
>> letter=c("a","b","c","d","e","f")
>>
>> for(l in letter){
>>
>>        cat("load('pred/Pred_pres_",l,"_indpdt')",sep="",collapse="","\n")
>>
>> }
>>
>> That will print the above commands to the console but it will not
>> actually
>> enter the commands.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Chris
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> 
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