Use a 'list' to read in the data and access it: files<-list.files() files<-files[grep('.wm4', files)] labels<-gsub('.wm4', '',files)
myInput <- lapply(files, read.table) # if you want to get rid of .wm4 names(myInput) <- sub(".wm4$", "", names(myInput)) On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Kenny Larsen <k.lar...@sheffield.ac.uk>wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have hunted high and low and tried dozens of things but have yet to > achieve the result I require. Below is my code (taken mostly from another > thread on here) thus far: > > files<-list.files() > files<-files[grep('.wm4', files)] > labels<-gsub('.wm4', '',files) > > for(i in 1:length(files)){ > X<-read.table(files[i]) > <My problem is here!> > > What I am trying to do now is assign the first item in labels in place of X > so the table name will effectively be whatever is written in labels[1]. The > files simply consist of two columns of real numbers. I have tried several > things, such like replacing X with labels[1], but this simply writes the > data in one long column to the first place of labels(which makes sense). > How > do I extract what is in labels[1] and set it as the table name? > > As always any help is greatly appreciated. > > Kenny Larsen > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Assigning-Data-a-name-from-within-another-variable--tp24037279p24037279.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.