Works on all platforms:
flist <- list.files(path=file.path("somedir", "somewhere"),
pattern="[.]csv$")
csvlist <- lapply(flist, read.csv, header=TRUE)
whateverList <- lapply(csvlist, whatever)
Andy
From: Richard M. Heiberger
>
> Wensui Lui asks:
> > is there a similar way to read all txt or csv files with same
> > structure from a folder?
>
>
>
> On Windows I use this construct to find all files with the
> specified wild card name.
> I used the "\\" in the file paths with the translate=FALSE,
> because the "/" in
> the DOS switches "/w/B" must not be translated. On Windows
> this picks up
> both lower and upper case filenames
>
> A similar construct can be written for Unix.
>
> tmp <- shell('dir c:\\HOME\\rmh\\tmp\\*.R /w/B', intern=TRUE,
> translate=FALSE) ##msdos
> for (i in tmp) source(paste("c:\\HOME\\rmh\\tmp\\", i, sep=""))
>
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