[R] Reading multiple .csv-files and assigning them to variable names

[jim holtman]

Read them into a list; much easier to handle:

myList <- lapply(filenames, read.csv)


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Sarah Moens <sarah_m at telenet.be> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to find a solution for the problem of reading
> multiple files and storing them in a variable that contains the names
> by which I want to call the datasets later on.
>
> For example (5 filenames):
>
> - The filenames are stored in one variable:
> filenames = paste(paste('name', '_', 1:5, sep = ''), '.csv', sep = '')
>
> - Subsequently I have a variable just containing the meaningful names
> for the dataset
> meaningfulnames = c('name1','name2'...,'name5')
>
> - I want to link each of these names to the data that is read
>
> for (i in 1:5)
> {
>     meaningfulnames[i] = read.csv(filenames[i], header = TRUE, sep = ',')
> }
>
>
> I need to read in quite a lot of datafiles. I have a code doing this
> one at a time, but since the number of datafiles I need to read will
> increase in the future, I want to make sure I have a more flexible
> solution for this.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help. I have tried to look in the help pages and
> also came across dbfread, but I can't seem to find something I can use
> or understand at this point.
>
>
> Sarah
>
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