list.files() will return the files in your current directory and you can use
that in a 'for' statement to loop through processing:

for (fileName in list.files()){
    input <- read.table(fileName,....)
    ....
}

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:07 AM, DAVID ARTETA GARCIA <
darteta001@ikasle.ehu.es> wrote:

> Hi Henrique, Daniel and Jim, and rest of the list. Your comments have been
> really useful. Daniel, you mention whether I am looping over some files
> stored in a directory. Is that actually doable with R? I mean, is it
> possible to read all the files in the same directory and run my script
> through them?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> Daniel Folkinshteyn <dfolkins@gmail.com> ha escrito:
>
> well, where are you getting the filename in the first place? are you
>> looping over a list of filenames that comes from somewhere?
>>
>> generally, for concatenating strings, look at function 'paste':
>> write.table(myoutput, paste(myfilename,"_out.txt", sep=''),sep="\t")
>>
>> on 06/06/2008 11:51 AM DAVID ARTETA GARCIA said the following:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to save the name of a filename automatically when  reading
>>> it using read.table() or some other function?
>>> My aim is to create then an output table with the name of the  original
>>> table with a suffix like _out
>>>
>>> example:
>>>
>>> mydata = read.table("Run224_v2_060308.txt", sep = "\t", header = TRUE)
>>>
>>> ## store name?
>>>
>>> myfile = the_name_of_the_file
>>>
>>> ## do analysis of data and store in a data.frame "myoutput"
>>> ## write output in tab format
>>>
>>> write.table(myoutput, c(myfile,"_out.txt"),sep="\t")
>>>
>>> the name of the new file will be
>>>
>>> "Run224_v2_060308_out.txt"
>>>
>>> Thanks in advanve,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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