[R] how to read a group of files into one dataset?

[Eik Vettorazzi]

Hi Jie,
you have to merge the sequential data.frames, and depending on the
structure of your inputs  and the way you want your resulting data.frame
(which you both didn't specify) either ?merge  or ?rbind should help.

cheers


Am 25.08.2011 10:17, schrieb Jie TANG:
> for example : I have files with the name
>  "ma01.dat","ma02.dat","ma03.dat","ma04.dat",I want to read the data in
> these files into one data.frame
> 
> flnm<-paste("obs",101:114,"_err.dat",sep="")
> newdata<-read.table(flnm,skip=2)
> data<-(flnm,skip=2)
> but the data only contains data from the flnm[1]
> I  also tried as below :
> for (i in 1:9) {
> data<-read.table(flnm[i],skip=2)
> }
> 
> 
> but i failed how could I modified my script?
> 
> is there any advices?
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