[R] process all files ending in *.dat

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Paul E Johnson wrote:

> On Linux (RH7.1) with R installed from CRAN rpms:
> 
> I have many files with miscellaneous names *.dat. I would like to
> successively open each one, run some functions on them, and then write
> some output numbers to *.summary.  I have succeeded in doing this when I
> type in each file name individually for the data input, but have not
> found a way to search files in a directory and grab the *.dat.  If
> somebody could tell me syntax or example of how to find the files, and
> get the basename in order to create the new file name, I would be
> grateful.
>  
> I tried
> mydat<-system("ls *.dat")
> but mydat does not catch the return.
> Thanks for your many helps in the past...
> 
list.files(pattern="*.dat") may help?

Roger

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