[R] Help with looping

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Try the following.

Data <- lapply(sprintf('file/%4i', 2000:2003), readLines)


This will give you a list with 4 elements, each of which is the contents 
of each file.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 17-02-2015 18:15, Alexandra Catena escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I need help with a for loop and printing data.  I want to loop through a
> few years and print the data from each year stacked on top of each other.
> For example,
>
> for (i in 2000:2003){
> #script for downloading each year
> Data = readLines(sprintf('file/%4i,i))
> }
>
> It only prints out the data from the last year.  Also, I tried
>
> Data[i] =  readLines(sprintf('file/%4i,i))
>
> but it says:
>
> "number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length"
>
> How do I get it to not replace each year of data? I have R version 2.15.1
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandra
>
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