[R-sig-Geo] Importing multiple shapefiles to run a loop in R

2011-03-14 Thread Nathaniel Rayl
Hi R Users, I commonly import multiple .csv files and then write loops to work with those files like this: setwd('C://Nathaniel/R/allfiles') files-list.files() allfiles-lapply(t1,read.csv) for (i in 1:47) { t1-allfiles[[i]] etc. etc. I have written a script that I would like to

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Importing multiple shapefiles to run a loop in R

2011-03-14 Thread Edzer Pebesma
Nathaniel, unlike a .csv, a shapefile consists of a set of files. The functions you use to read them take either the base name (shape1) or the .shp file (shape1.shp) as argument, and discover the rest themselves. They don't like to be called with e.g. shape1.dbf. If your understanding of R is

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Importing multiple shapefiles to run a loop in R

2011-03-14 Thread alban thomas
Hi, use this to restrict the list to readable files : t1-list.files(pattern=.shp) hope this help, Alban 2011/3/14 Edzer Pebesma edzer.pebe...@uni-muenster.de Nathaniel, unlike a .csv, a shapefile consists of a set of files. The functions you use to read them take either the base name