[R] Reading a bunch of csv files into R

[Kevin Wright]

See ?dir

Assign the value to a vector and loop over the elements of the vector.

Kevin


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:16 PM, HJ YAN <yhj204 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users
>
>
> I am struggling from a data importing issue:
>
> I have some hundreds of csv files needed to be read into R for futher
> analysis. All those csv files are named in one of the three formats:
>
> (1) strings: e.g. London_Oxford street
> (2) Integer: e.g. 1234_5678
> (3) combined: e.g. London_1234
>
> I intend to use read.csv("xxxx_xxx.csv") but I only dealt with
> sigle documents before and if there are only no more than 20 files, I do
> not bother to search a more efficient way.
>
>
> Is there any claver way that I do not have to type in all these hundreds
> names by hand, maybe using a R package or write some code in some other
> languages if it is not too difficult to learn.
>
> Any thoughts/hints please??
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> HJ
>
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