Greetings all. Any help with the following would be appreciated. I want to create a data frame for each file in a directory. The following code does not work but it may show what I am trying to do:
carmakes <- c('BMW','Chrysler','Citroen','Fiat','Ford','Holden','Honda', 'Mercedes','MG','Mitsubishi','Nissan','Peugeot','Renault','Subaru','Toyota', 'VW') for (brand in carmakes) { fyle <- paste("c:/data/cars03/",brand,".txt",sep="") brand <- read.table(fyle, header = TRUE, sep = "\t",na.strings = c("-","POA"), colClasses=c("character",rep("numeric",7)), comment.char = "#") } I need something like an unquote() function that will allow the "brand" on the LHS of the assignment to be treated as an object name instead of a character string. Murray Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help