[R] Import multiple files into R

[Marc Girondot]

You can check the function read_folder() in the package phenology.

read_folder(folder = try(file.choose(), silent = TRUE), wildcard = "*.*",
   read = read.delim, ...)
Arguments

folder
Where to search for files; can be or a file path or a folder path

wildcard
Define which files are to be read (examples: "*.*", "*.xls", "essai*.txt")

read
Function used to read file. Ex: read.delim or read.xls from gdata package

...
Parameters send to the read function

Details

read_folder reads all files present in a folder

Value

Return a list of the data in the files of the folder (directory for 
windows users)

Sincerely,

Marc Girondot

Le 20/03/2014 06:15, ajaykumar a écrit :
> Hi I want to import around 75 files. Each file has a name and a time and is
> comma separated.
> For example some of my file names are
> Asheville_Dec.txt
> Asheville_Jan.txt
> Asheville_Feb.txt
> Charlotte_Dec.txt
> Chapelhill_Jan.txt
>
> The time months are only Dec Jan and Feb. The locations are different. I
> have data for these 3 months at 25 cities which I want to import in R
> I don't want to use read.table 75 times and keep changing names.
>
> Is there any way I can keep all the city names in an object and the three
> months in another object
> and then use a loop over read.table of location_time.txt
> I would also like to view them as 75 different data sets in R
> So the file Asheville_Dec must be in a dataset called Asheville_Dec in R
>
> Can this be done.
> Please help
>
>
>
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