[R] multi read.table function and read.table function not accepting col.names

2004-05-26 Thread Laura Quinn
I am using R-1.8.0 on Debian. I'm trying to read in a large table (1441*16) which currently has no header line. I have set up a list of column names which is 16 names long. when i try the following: myfiledate.01-read.table(filenamedate.01,row.names=NULL,col.names=names,na.strings=-999.00) I

Re: [R] multi read.table function and read.table function not accepting col.names

2004-05-26 Thread Wolski
Hi! 1. assuning that names is the vector with the names. try col.names=names instead of names 2. Several ways a) use lapply(listwithpathstofiles,read.tabel,remaining, options) //u will get it stored in the list. b) or use for loop and append to list. mylist-list() c) or look ?assing to

Re: [R] multi read.table function and read.table function not accepting col.names

2004-05-26 Thread Laura Quinn
Thank you for your earlier help, I have a couple of related questions. With the lapply function, is it still possible to assign column names to each column of every data frame, again I have tried and it doesn't seem to like it.. and is it also possible to assign names to each data frame when I