[R] Automatic File Reading

Wensui Liu liuwensui at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 20:04:38 CEST 2006


is there a similar way to read all txt or csv files with same
structure from a folder?

thanks.

On 10/18/06, Jerome Asselin <jerome.asselin at crchum.qc.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 17:09 +0200, Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > I am given a set of files names as:
> > velocity1.txt
> > velocity2.txt
> >  and so on.
> > I am sure there must be a way to read them automatically in R.
> > It is really taking me longer to read them than to analyze them.
> > Anybody has a suggestion to help me out with this?
> > Many thanks
>
> Not what you mean by "reading".
> ?read.table
> ?read.csv
> ?scan
> ...
>
> However, consider this example. If you have 100 files, you can do:
>
> for(i in 1:100)
> {
>   fn <- paste("velocity",i,".txt",sep="")
>   dat <- read.csv(fn)
>   # ... do your stuff on "dat" here ...
> }
>
> HTH,
> Jerome
>
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Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center



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