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I have a process which generates number of outputs. The R code for the same is as given below.

for(i in 1:n)   
{                                                                                                         
write.csv(output[i], file = paste("output", i, ".csv", sep = ""), row.names = FALSE)                                                                     
} 

Depending on value of 'n', I get different output files. 

Suppose n = 3, that means I am having three output csv files viz. 'output1.csv', 'output2.csv' and 'output3.csv'

output1.csv
date               yield_rate
12/23/2010        5.25
12/22/2010        5.19
.................................
.................................


output2.csv

date               yield_rate

12/23/2010        4.16

12/22/2010        4.59

.................................

.................................

output3.csv


date               yield_rate


12/23/2010        6.15


12/22/2010        6.41


.................................


.................................



Thus all the output files have same column names viz. Date and yield_rate. Also, I do need these files individually too. 

My further requirement is to have a single dataframe as given below.

Date             yield_rate1               yield_rate2                yield_rate3
12/23/2010       5.25                          4.16                          6.15 
12/22/2010       5.19                          4.59                          6.41
...............................................................................................
...............................................................................................

where yield_rate1 = output1$yield_rate and so on.

One way is to simply create a dataframe as 

df = data.frame(Date = read.csv('output1.csv')$Date, yield_rate1 =  read.csv('output1.csv')$yield_rate,   yield_rate2 = read.csv('output2.csv')$yield_rate,
yield_rate3 = read.csv('output3.csv')$yield_rate)

However, the problem arises when I am not aware how many output files are there as n can be 5 or even 100.       

So is it possible to write some loop or some function which will enable me to read 'n' files individually and then keeping "Date" common, only pickup the yield_curve data from each output file.

Thanking in advance for any guidance.

Regards

Amy




      
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