Hi all,

Thanks everyone for your advice. They have been helpful.

Just for the record, I am using ...

lapply(dir(path = filePath, pattern = "^test_"), function(x){read.table(file
= paste(filePath, x, sep = ""), sep = ",", header = TRUE)  }  )

to load the files

kind regards

Chibisi

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd@gmail.com>wrote:

> Try this:
>
> sapply(dir(patt="^test_"), read.table, sep = ";", header = TRUE)
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <chibco@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am trying to read a bunch of csv files using read.table() that are named
>> "test_xxxxxx.csv" where "xxxxxx" has no particular pattern. Is there a way
>> of reading all the files by specifying a truncated file name e.g. "test_"
>> with some wild card characters, or would I have to laboriously create some
>> vector with the "xxxxxx" names and iterate or lapply() over it?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Chibisi
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