On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 17:09 +0200, Lorenzo Isella wrote: > Dear All, > I am given a set of files names as: > velocity1.txt > velocity2.txt > and so on. > I am sure there must be a way to read them automatically in R. > It is really taking me longer to read them than to analyze them. > Anybody has a suggestion to help me out with this? > Many thanks
Not what you mean by "reading". ?read.table ?read.csv ?scan ... However, consider this example. If you have 100 files, you can do: for(i in 1:100) { fn <- paste("velocity",i,".txt",sep="") dat <- read.csv(fn) # ... do your stuff on "dat" here ... } HTH, Jerome -- Jerome Asselin, M.Sc., Agent de recherche, RHCE CHUM -- Centre de recherche 3875 rue St-Urbain, 3e etage // Montreal QC H2W 1V1 Tel.: 514-890-8000 Poste 15914; Fax: 514-412-7106 ______________________________________________ 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.