Thanks, Barry. I'll use that in the future.
---Kyle. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Barry Rowlingson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/5 Chris Poliquin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > I have about 900 files that I need to run the same R script on. I looked > > over the R Data Import/Export Manual and couldn't come up with a way to > > read in a sequence of files. > > > > The files all have unique names and are in the same directory. What I > want > > to do is: > > 1) Create a list of the file names in the directory (this is really what > I > > need help with) > > 2) For each item in the list... > > a) open the file with read.table > > b) perform some analysis > > c) append some results to an array or save them to another file > > 3) Next File > > > > My initial instinct is to use Python to rename all the files with numbers > > 1:900 and then read them all, but the file names contain some information > > that I would like to keep intact and having to keep a separate database > of > > original names and numbers seems inefficient. Is there a way to have R > read > > all the files in a directory one at a time? > > I can't believe the two 'solutions' already posted. It's easy: > > ?list.files > > Barry > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
