[R] reading and storing files in the workspace

[Luis Ridao Cruz]

R-help,

I have a vector containing (test) some file names.
The files contents are matrixes.

> test

 [1] "aaOki.txt"    "aOki.txt"     "bOki.txt"     "c1Oki.txt"   
"c2Oki.txt"    "c3Oki.txt"    "cOki.txt"     "dOki.txt"     "dyp100.txt"
  "dyp200.txt"  
[11] "dyp300.txt"   "dyp400.txt"   "dyp500.txt"   "dyp600.txt"  
"dyp700.txt"   "dyp800.txt"   "eOki.txt"     "FBdyp100.txt"
"FBdyp150.txt" "FBdyp200.txt".............

What I want to do is to import to R using the same file name
and remove the ".txt" extension out of the object name.
Something like this:

for(i in test)
gsub("\\.", "", paste(i, sep = "")) <- read.table(file = paste(i, sep =
""), header = TRUE)

But I get the following message:

Error in gsub("\\.", "", paste(i, sep = "")) <- read.table(file =
paste(i,  : 
        target of assignment expands to non-language object


Thanks in advance.


> version
               _                           
platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
arch           i386                        
os             mingw32                     
system         i386, mingw32               
status                                     
major          2                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2007                        
month          06                          
day            27                          
svn rev        42083                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)