[R] files

[Jeff Newmiller]

Presumably using read.table instead of read.csv.

Get the import working with one sample file first, then do whatever you 
had to do with one file over and over.

You still need to go read up on regex patterns... to get you started the 
pattern for matching the csv files would be something like 
"Bdat[0-9]*\\.csv$", and the pattern for matching txt files would be 
"Bdat[0-9]*\\.txt$", but understanding regular expressions is a topic in 
its own right, separate from R. Google is your friend.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Val wrote:

> Thank you Sarah,
>
> Some of the files are not csv but  some are *txt with  space delimited.
>   Bdat.txt
>   Bdat123.txt
>   Bdat456.txt
> How do I do that?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Something like this:
>>
>> filelist <- list.files(pattern="^test")
>> myfiles <- lapply(filelist, read.csv)
>> myfiles <- do.call(rbind, myfiles)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Val <valkremk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In one folder  I have several files  and  I want
>>> combine/concatenate(rbind) based on some condition .
>>> Here is  the sample of the files in one folder
>>>    test.csv
>>>    test123.csv
>>>    test456.csv
>>>    Adat.csv
>>>    Adat123.csv
>>>    Adat456.csv
>>>
>>> I want to create 2  files as follows
>>>
>>> test_all  = rbind(test.csv, test123.csv,test456.csv)
>>> Adat_al l= rbind(Adat.csv, Adat123.csv,Adat456.csv)
>>>
>>> The actual number of  of files are many and  is there an efficient way
>>> of doing it?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sarah Goslee
>> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>
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