There is a function ?dir which returns you the content of the dir_ectory.
If this is more then there is a function ?grep which allows you to extract relevant items.
If you need to postprocess the names you have a function ?paste for example.
And finally you have an S language construct for(){}
And there is help.search() and An Introduction to R to which tells you how to write functions.
/E
Vikas Rawal wrote:
I want to read data from a number of files into R.
Reading individual files one by one requires writing enormous amount of code that will look something like the following.
**************** maptools:::dbf.read("wb-01vc.dbf")->dist1 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-02vc.dbf")->dist2 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-03vc.dbf")->dist3 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-04vc.dbf")->dist4 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-05vc.dbf")->dist5 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-06vc.dbf")->dist6 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-07vc.dbf")->dist7 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-08vc.dbf")->dist8 maptools:::dbf.read("wb-09vc.dbf")->dist9 *****************
Is there a better way of doing this?
Vikas
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