[R] syntax for batching rbind process

Toby Gass tobygass at warnercnr.colostate.edu
Wed Aug 18 22:16:55 CEST 2010


It works perfectly now.  Thank you all.

Toby

On 18 Aug 2010 at 15:04, Erik Iverson wrote:

> 
> 
> Toby Gass wrote:
> > Thank you for the suggestions for the more efficient code.  The 
> > problem remains, however, that the final dataframe does not contain 
> > the correct values.  So, in the case of the code you suggested, 
> > 
> > imp <- lapply(test, read.csv)
> > do.call(rbind, imp)
> > 
> > imp does contain all the data from each dataframe, and the data from 
> > each csv can be accessed with a single bracket index, but the do.call 
> > does not work, possibly because rbind doesn't work on a list??  
> > 
> 
> I think that syntax looks OK. What error are you actually getting?
> 
> > Any additional suggestions will be happily tested.  I'm still 
> > figuring out how to create a functionally equivalent toy example.
> 
> Toy example that can replicate error would be perfect. You can always
> just ?dput a subset of imp, say the first few elements if there are
> many.
>



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