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> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > I would like to read all files from a directory, the files have names
> > "myname0001.txt" etc. I paste the director
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>I would like to read all files from a directory, the fil
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would like to read all files from a directory, the files have names
> "myname0001.txt" etc. I paste the directory plus file names and
> use "read.delim()".
> My problem is that some file names are missing, so I get an error
> and my program stops.
Hi Christian,
I suppose that you are doing this in a loop and is stopping.
Have a look at the function try()
?try
Try an Expression Allowing Error Recovery.
Description:
`try' is a wrapper to run an expression that might fail and allow
the user's code to handle error
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear R-experts
>
> I would like to read all files from a directory, the files have names
> "myname0001.txt" etc. I paste the directory plus file names and
> use "read.delim()".
> My problem is that some file names are missing, so I g