Hi Ed, I'm not sure I understand, but can't you rwad the files one by one and create one data.frane using rbind?
Is easy to put do in a loop too. Best wishes, Ulrik On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, 20:23 Ed Siefker, <ebs15...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have many data files named like this: > > E11.5-021415-dko-1-1-masked-bottom-area.tsv > E11.5-021415-dko-1-1-masked-top-area.tsv > E11.5-021415-dko-1-2-masked-bottom-area.tsv > E11.5-021415-dko-1-2-masked-top-area.tsv > E11.5-021415-dko-1-3-masked-bottom-area.tsv > E11.5-021415-dko-1-3-masked-top-area.tsv > > age-date-genotype-num-slicenum-filler-position-data > > An individual sample is an age-date-geno-num, each sample has two > parts, and is composed of around 10 slices. Each row of the tsv is an > area which will be summed for the total area. > > What I want is a dataframe, with a row for each sample and a column > for bottom and top. Under bottom and top, I want each element to be a > dataframe with a row for each slice and a column for the area. > > So I can lapply over this list of files, use strsplit to pull out the > slice num and put the area into the correct row of a dataframe easily > enough. But I have a line for every datapoint, not sample, and there > would be a dataframe for each area. > > How can I merge all the data for the slices into one data frame? Does > this make sense? > Thanks > -Ed > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.