[R] Reading through a group of .RData files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Talbot Katz wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> I have a procedure that reads a directory, loops through a set of 
> particular .RData files, loading each one, and feeding its object(s) 
> into a function, as follows:
>
> cvListFiles<-list.files(fnDir);
> for(i in grep(paste("^",pfnStub,".*\\.RData$",sep=""),cvListFiles)){
> load(paste(fnDir,cvListFiles[i],sep="/"));
> myFunction(rliObject);
> rm(rliObject);
> };
>
> where fnDir is the directory I'm reading, and pfnStub is a string that 
> begins the name of each of the files I want to load.  As you can see, 
> I'm assuming that each of the selected .RData files contains an object 
> named "rliObject" and I'm hoping that nothing in any of the files I'm 
> loading overwrites an object in my environment.  I'd like to clean this 
> up so that I can extract the object(s) from each data file, and feed 
> them to my function, whatever their names are, without corrupting my 
> environment.  I'd appreciate any assistance.  Thanks!

You can load() each to a new enviroment: see the arguments of load().

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