Hi Beatriz, Try
paste("val_mapped_petpe_", 1976:1981, "01.txt", sep="") Best, Jorge.- On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Beatriz R. Gonzalez Dominguez < aguitatie...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to create a loop to select a series of files into my computer > but I haven't been successful until now. I've looked into different > possibilities but none has worked. I'd appretiate if you could help me by > providing me with some ideas. > > Basically what I'd like to do is to create a character string variable > [1:5], same as the one that could be obtained with 'list.files', but using > a 'for' loop. > > This is one of the things I've tried but obviously doesn't yield the > results I would like: > > for(i in 1976:1981){ > PE.files_01_7681 <- paste("val_mapped_petpe_", i, "01.txt", sep="") > paste(PE.files_01_7681[i]) > } > > Many thanks! > > ______________________________________________ > 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.