thomas hills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am wondering if it is possible to read.table repeatedly from a list
> of file names into a new list of table names.
>
> For example:
>
> filenames <- list.files()
>
> then with a function like
>
> rf <- function(i) {
> word??(filename[i]) <- read.table(filenames[i]) }
>
> I can't seem to find a function like word?? that will be the object of
> another operation. If this worked, then I could repeat it for the
> length of filenames.
>
> Also, even the following function seems to give me an error, but I
> don't yet know why.
>
> rf <- function(nam, i) { nam <- read.table(filenames[i]) }
>
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
Something like
listoftables <- lapply(filenames, read.table)
names(listoftables) <- filenames
might be what you are looking for.
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