On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 13:18 -0700, olafgy wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to import 100 files with the names of "vpn 1 .dat" to "vpn 100
> .dat"
> into a respective table calld vpn1 to vpn100.
>
> I therfore have created a variable X<-1:100
>
> I not want to use X as a subtitute for the number in my filename, so that I
> have to write only one function and it does the operation with all files.
>
> I have tried every combination i could imagine to include the string X into
> the file name:
>
> vpn'X' , vpn"X" , vpn[X] , and so on, but R never did what I wanted it
> too.
>
> vpn"X"<-read.table("vpn "X" .dat")
>
> So is there a way to do this in R??? or should I use an intirely new
> aproach?
>
> Thanks for your Help!
How about paste() to form the strings and assign() to save your objects?
> for(i in 1:100) assign(paste("vpn", i, sep=""),
read.table(paste("vpn", i, ".dat")))
HTH,
Jerome
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