> paste(samp, ".pdf", sep="")
[1] "20110317.pdf"
> paste(samp, ".csv", sep="")
[1] "20110317.csv"
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:05 AM, pierz wrote:
I would like to use samp as a part of a filename that I can change. My source
> files are .csv files with date as the file name, and I would like to be able
> to type in the date (later perhaps automate this using list.files) and then
> read the csv and write the pdf automatically. I have tried different
> combinations with "" and () around samp, but I keep getting the error
> "object 'samp.csv' not found".
> 
> samp <- "20110317"
> read.csv(file=samp.csv,...)
> #next R processes some code that works fine, and then should save the
> figure:
> pdf(file=samp.pdf,...)
> dev.off()
> 
> How can I get R to replace samp as 20110317 in front of .csv and .pdf?
> 
> Best,
> Sjouke
> 
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