Does this give you what you want (just did it in two steps);
> x <- expand.grid(year = sprintf("%04d", seq(1986, 1995)), month =
> sprintf("%02d", 1:12))
> filelist <- paste("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_",
> paste(x$year, x$month, sep=''), '.asc', sep='')
>
>
>
>
> filelist
[1] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198601.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198701.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198801.asc"
[4] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198901.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199001.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199101.asc"
[7] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199201.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199301.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199401.asc"
[10] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199501.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198602.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198702.asc"
[13] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198802.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198902.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199002.asc"
[16] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199102.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199202.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199302.asc"
[19] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199402.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199502.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198603.asc"
[22] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198703.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198803.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198903.asc"
[25] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199003.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199103.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199203.asc"
[28] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199303.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199403.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199503.asc"
[31] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198604.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198704.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198804.asc"
[34] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198904.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199004.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199104.asc"
[37] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199204.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199304.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199404.asc"
[40] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199504.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198605.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198705.asc"
[43] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198805.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_198905.asc"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_199005.asc"
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Murray <smurray...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for the help in the previous posts. I've considered each one and have
> nearly managed to get it working. The structure of the filelist being
> produced is correct, except for a single space which I can't seem to
> eradicate! This is my amended code, followed by the first twelve rows of the
> output (it really goes up to 120 rows).
>
>>filelist <- paste("C:\\Documents and
>>Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_",do.call(paste, expand.grid(year =
>>sprintf("%04d", seq(1986,1995)), month = sprintf("%02d",1:12))),".asc",
>>sep="")
>
>
>>filelist
>
> [1] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1986 01.asc"
> [2] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1987 01.asc"
> [3] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1988 01.asc"
> [4] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1989 01.asc"
> [5] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1990 01.asc"
> [6] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1991 01.asc"
> [7] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1992 01.asc"
> [8] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1993 01.asc"
> [9] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1994 01.asc"
> [10] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1995 01.asc"
> [11] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1986 02.asc"
> [12] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp1987 02.asc"
>
>
> I've tried inserting sep="" after the 'month=sprintf("%02d",1:12)' but this
> doesn't appear to solve the problem - in fact it doesn't change the output at
> all...!
>
> Any help would be much appreciated,
>
> Steve
>
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