Paul Hiemstra wrote:
>
>
> file_list = list.files("/where/are/the/files")
> obj_list = lapply(file_list, FUN = yourfunction)
>
> yourfunction is probably either read.table or some read function from
> the tm package. So obj_list will become a list of either data.frame's or
> tm objects.
>
>
The read function that most probably should be adequate is readLines(), so
the command would read:
obj_list <- lapply(file_list,readLines)
To convert to a vector, do the following:
obj_list <- lapply(obj_list,paste,collapse=" ")
obj_vec <- as.vector(obj_list)
Ken
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