Re: [R] some help regarding combining columns from different files

2010-01-12 Thread Harikrishnadhar
Hi Jim, I am want to merge two files into one file : Here is my code . But the problem with this is that I am getting the 2nd file appended to the first when i write temp3 in my code to the text file. I am not sure what mistake I am doing . also find the test files to run the code . Please

Re: [R] some help regarding combining columns from different files

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Knapp
Hi Hari, You have not given examples of 'list1.bp.files.names' or 'list2.bp.files.names' and hence it is difficult to determine what the code is trying to achieve. I will assume you want to create all pairwise merges of the attached files. If this is indeed what you are doing, the problem is not

Re: [R] some help regarding combining columns from different files

2009-12-18 Thread jim holtman
In your function, you have temp - read.table(fnames,header=T,sep=\t,stringsAsFactors=F,quote=\) I think you mean: temp - read.table(i,header=T,sep=\t,stringsAsFactors=F,quote=\) Also 'files' is a parameter, but you are using 'fnames' in the 'for' loop; shouldn't that be 'files'? On Thu, Dec

[R] some help regarding combining columns from different files

2009-12-17 Thread Harikrishnadhar
Dear all, Here is my code which am using to combine 5th column from different data sets. Here is the function to do my job genesymbol.append.file -NULL gene.column - NULL readGeneSymbol - function(files,genesymbol.column=5){ for(i in fnames){ temp -