1. There is no built-in function to do that, but it can be done if you learn
the basics of R [1]. For one thing, there is no assurance that all files in a
directory will fit into vectors.. Most data fit better into data frames, and
some data like XML need to be stored in lists of lists. So your first task is
to work this out and use the str function to make sure you understand how your
data for one file looks when imported into R variables.
Once you figure out how your files can be read in (perhaps with read.csv or
read.table?) then you can use list.files to get a vector of filenames, and
lapply to create a list of contents of files. You may need to re-read the
discussions of lists and indexing in [1] again to see how to get the pieces out
of the list. If all your files actually do have the same data frame structure,
then you might find it useful to merge the list into a single data frame.
Something like:
fnames <- list.files( pattern="\\.csv$" )
dtalist <- lapply(fnames,function(fn){read.csv(fn,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)})
alldta <- do.call(rbind,dtalist)
2. Read help file ?numeric.
You should also read the Posting Guide, which among other advice mentions that
you should post using plain text format on this list rather than HTML (since we
don't see what you see if you use the latter).
[1] Introduction to R, supplied with the software.
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On November 10, 2014 5:12:10 AM PST, Aditya Singh <aps...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have 2 queries:
>1. What function to use to read all the files in a directory to a
>vector in R code?
>2. What function to use to coerce character string into numeric?
>As a help to others, I figured out to use setwd("C:/....") to set
>working directory!
>Aditya
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