Re: [R] input data file

2007-08-07 Thread jim holtman
You don't have to name them after numbers. What I sent was just an example of a character vector with file names. If you have all the files in a directory, then you can set the loop to read in all the files (or selected one based on a pattern match). If you are copy/pasting the 'scan' command, t

Re: [R] input data file

2007-08-07 Thread Tiandao Li
I thought of loop at first. My data were generated from 32 microarray experiments, each had 3 replicates, 96 files in total. I named the files based on different conditions or time series, and I really won't want to name them after numbers. It will make me confused later when I need to refer/co

Re: [R] input data file

2007-08-07 Thread jim holtman
I would hope that you don't have 100 'scan' statements; you should just have a loop that is using a set of file names in a vector to read the data. Are you reading the data into separate objects? If so, have you considered reading the 100 files into a 'list' so that you have a single object with

Re: [R] input data file

2007-08-07 Thread Tiandao Li
In the first part of myfile.R, I used scan() 100 times to read data from 100 different tab-delimited files. I want to save this part to another data file, so I won't accidently make mistakes, and I want to re-use/input it like infile statement in SAS or \input(file.tex} in latex. Don't want to

Re: [R] input data file

2007-08-07 Thread jim holtman
If you are going to read it back into R, then use 'save'; if it is input to another applicaiton, consider 'write.csv'. I assume that when you say "save all my data files" you really mean "save all my R objects". On 8/7/07, Tiandao Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to R. I used s

[R] input data file

2007-08-07 Thread Tiandao Li
Hello, I am new to R. I used scan() to read data from tab-delimited files. I want to save all my data files (multiple scan()) in another file, and use it like infile statement in SAS or \input{tex.file} in latex. Thanks! __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch m