[R] Automatic file reading

[Arne Henningsen]

Hi Andreas,

what's about:
pair <- list()
for (i in 1:8){
   name <- paste("pair",i,sep="")
   pair[[ i ]] <- read.table(paste("/home/andersm/tmp/",name,sep=""))
}

Arne

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 12:10, Anders Malmberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to do automatic reading of a number of tables (files) stored in
> ascii format
> without having to specify the variable name in R each time.  Below is an
> example
> of how I would like to use it (I assume files pair1,...,pair8 exist in
> spec. dire.)
>
> for (i in 1:8){
>   name <- paste("pair",i,sep="")
>   ? ? ? <- read.table(paste("/home/andersm/tmp/",name,sep=""))
> }
>
> after which I want to have pair1,...,pair8 as tables.
>
> But I can not get it right. Anybody having a smart solution?
>
> Best regards,
> Anders Malmberg
>
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