[R] How to pass variable of for loop on read table text

Charilaos Skiadas cskiadas at gmail.com
Sat May 24 03:14:56 CEST 2008


?paste

paste('text',y,'.txt', sep="")

and you likely need data[[y]] instead of data$y.

On May 23, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Jason Lee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of text and would like to automate of reading these  
> multiple
> files using
> (namely; text1.txt, text2.txt....)
>
> for(y in 3:10){
> data$y<-read.table('text$y.txt')}
>
> But it seems not allow. Any idea?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College



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