[R] looping through data frames in a workspace

2008-03-03 Thread lucy b
All, I have a workspace containing only data frame objects. I would like to loop though each one and clean-up text columns in them. How can I have R loop through the list? I have tried to find an answer in R help but the closest solution I can find is to make a static list of data frames, as

[R] extracting data using strings as delimiters

2007-09-25 Thread lucy b
Dear List, I have an ascii text file with data I'd like to extract. Example: Year Built: 1873 Gross Building Area: 578 sq ft Total Rooms: 6 Living Area: 578 sq ft There is a lot of data I'd like to ignore in each record, so I'm hoping there is a way to use strings as delimiters to get the