> filelist = list.files(pattern = "K*cd.txt") # the file names are K1cd.txt > .................to K200cd.txt
It's very easy: names(filelist) <- basename(filelist) data_list <- ldply(filelist, read.table, header=T, comment=";", fill=T) Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.