try: mylist <- lapply(a, read.table, header = TRUE, sep = '\n')
also is the separator really '\n' meaning a new-line? What exactly does the data look like? On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Simon Kiss <simonjk...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to read in 50 text filess with dates as content to create a list > of tables. > > a is the list of filenames that need to be read in. > > The following command returns the following error > mylist<-lapply(a, read.table(header=TRUE, sep="\n")) > > Error in read.table(header = TRUE, sep = "\n") : > element 1 is empty; > the part of the args list of 'is.character' being evaluated was: > (file) > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > Yours, Simon Kiss > ********************************* > Simon J. Kiss, PhD > Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University > 73 George Street > Brantford, Ontario, Canada > N3T 2C9 > Cell: +1 519 761 7606 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
