R-help, I have a vector containing (test) some file names. The files contents are matrixes.
> test [1] "aaOki.txt" "aOki.txt" "bOki.txt" "c1Oki.txt" "c2Oki.txt" "c3Oki.txt" "cOki.txt" "dOki.txt" "dyp100.txt" "dyp200.txt" [11] "dyp300.txt" "dyp400.txt" "dyp500.txt" "dyp600.txt" "dyp700.txt" "dyp800.txt" "eOki.txt" "FBdyp100.txt" "FBdyp150.txt" "FBdyp200.txt"............. What I want to do is to import to R using the same file name and remove the ".txt" extension out of the object name. Something like this: for(i in test) gsub("\\.", "", paste(i, sep = "")) <- read.table(file = paste(i, sep = ""), header = TRUE) But I get the following message: Error in gsub("\\.", "", paste(i, sep = "")) <- read.table(file = paste(i, : target of assignment expands to non-language object Thanks in advance. > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 5.1 year 2007 month 06 day 27 svn rev 42083 language R version.string R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.