Use a list instead of assign then do.call("rbind", thelist). import.files <- c("a.txt", "b.txt", "c.txt", "d.txt", "e.txt") imp <- vector("list", length(import.files)) for (i in 1:length(import.files)) { imp[[i]] <- read.delim(import.files[i], sep = "", header = TRUE) }
combined <- do.call("rbind", imp) HTH, --sundar On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Steven Kang <stochastick...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, all > > Basically, I have unknown number of data that need to be imported and > collapsed row-wisely. > > The code below works fine, however the "rbind" function may require 50 > arguments if there are 50 data files... > > Thus, I would like to explore whether there are any methods in using > dynamic > objects (i.e from the resulting objects in the for loop) as an argument in > the *"rbind"* function. > > > > setwd(.........) > > import.files <- c("a.txt", "b.txt", "c.txt", "d.txt", "e.txt") > for (i in 1:length(import.files)) { > assign(paste("imp", i, sep = "."), read.delim(eval(paste(".\\", > import.files[i], sep = "")), header = TRUE)) > } > > combined <- rbind(*imp.1, imp.2, imp.3, imp.4, imp.5, imp.6*) > > > > Your expertise in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Steve > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.