Thnaks to both of you, with a combined effort of the Wiki and your code I have now managed to get teh result I was after.
When I have a better understanding of what the code is doing I shall make an effort to contribut to the Wiki! Cheers, Kenny Kenny Larsen 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--tp24037279p24054319.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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.