[R] importing multiple file form folder

Nicolas Iderhoff nicolasiderhoff at googlemail.com
Mon May 28 22:07:55 CEST 2012


Hi,

if you're on a mac, I would recommend Automator. If you're on unix I would recommend a handy bash script with regex. And on windows.. I don't know.. you could do regex in R, couldn't you?

Am 28.05.2012 um 21:02 schrieb mpavlic:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I have a set of files (which is growing) in a folder. The files are text
> files...
> The form of files is such : 
> 
> 
> ...with numbers for Length (m) going up to 2000 ...
> Anyway...i just need the data from first two columns  (length (m) and
> Temperature (C)), and no data before that...
> 
> This Lenght (m) values are always the same. My final dataset should lokk
> like this :
> column 1 as Length(m) ; column 2 as Temperature from first file ; column3
> as temperature from second file...and so on...
> 
> I know how to import this manualy, but can seem to find a way to automate
> it...the problem is that the amout of files will be growing for quite quite
> some time, so automation is necessary.
> 
> Any help is greatly apreciated.
> m
> 
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