[R] File selection by condition

[jim holtman]

Read the files in, select those that meet the criteria and store them in a list

match.list <- list()
for (i in list.files(pattern="some pattern")){
    x.in <- read.table(i)
    if (your match criteria) match.list[[i]] <- x.in
}

On 9/28/07, Svempa <fempa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have a large number of textfiles, and one matix in every texfile. I now
> want to find an easy way to select those textfiles that contain at least one
> value over a certain limit, and collect those matrices in a vector or
> something alike. How do I do that?
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Jim Holtman
Cincinnati, OH
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