[R] Looping through a series of (csv) files

2007-07-15 Thread Yuchen Luo
Dear Colleagues.

This should be a very common operation and I believe there should be a nice
way in R to handle it.  I couldn't find it in the manual or by searching
online. I am wondering if I could ask for some help in this community.

I have 48 csv files; each stores the data for a specific month. The 48
corresponding months are consecutively from January, 2001 to December, 2004.
I name the files A200101, A200102,….., A200112, A200201, ……,etc.

I want to process file A2000101 and store the result to a new file named
B200101, process file A200102 and store the result to a new file named
B200102… …etc.

I do not want to manually change a little bit of the code to read a
different file and write to a different file every time. I want the program
to be able to loop through all the files.

My question is, how to loop through the 48 files?

Your help will be highly appreciated!


Best Wishes

Yuchen Luo

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Re: [R] Looping through a series of (csv) files

2007-07-15 Thread Chuck Cleland
Yuchen Luo wrote:
 Dear Colleagues.
 
 This should be a very common operation and I believe there should be a nice
 way in R to handle it.  I couldn't find it in the manual or by searching
 online. I am wondering if I could ask for some help in this community.
 
 I have 48 csv files; each stores the data for a specific month. The 48
 corresponding months are consecutively from January, 2001 to December, 2004.
 I name the files A200101, A200102,….., A200112, A200201, ……,etc.
 
 I want to process file A2000101 and store the result to a new file named
 B200101, process file A200102 and store the result to a new file named
 B200102… …etc.
 
 I do not want to manually change a little bit of the code to read a
 different file and write to a different file every time. I want the program
 to be able to loop through all the files.
 
 My question is, how to loop through the 48 files?
 
 Your help will be highly appreciated!
 
 
 Best Wishes
 
 Yuchen Luo

  This will read each of the 48 csv files, add 50 to the values in each
file, and then write each resulting data frame to its own new file:

for(i in 1:48){
 tempdf - read.csv(paste(c:/myfolder/raw, i, .csv, sep=))
 tempdf.new - tempdf + 50
 write.table(tempdf.new,
 file=paste(c:/myfolder/plus50-, i, .csv, sep=),
 sep=,, row.names=FALSE)
}

rm(list=c(tempdf, tempdf.new, i))

  Of course, you can do something more useful than adding 50.

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