I know that R can read cvs file, but could R read excel files? For example, in the workbook, I have 3 sheets. How could I read for those three sheets?
Thanks, Rebecca -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of jim holtman Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:58 AM To: Dominic Roye Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] Read many cvs files You can read the files into a "list" -- you don't want to create unique object names for each one. files <- list.files(..pattern to match files..) results <- lapply(files, read.table, header = TRUE) On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Dominic Roye <dominic.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello R helpers, > > I would like to automate this code for many files of the same type. > But I don´t know how to make it. In particular, i don´t know how to > read many files each one as an r object with the name of the file. > Then a for loop would be sufficient, right? > > Many thanks and a happy new year. > > Dominic > > datos <- > read.table('global2001.csv',head=T,sep=';',stringsAsFactors=F) > > datos[datos==""] <- NA > > temp <- datos[,19:53] > > > y <- split(temp,1:nrow(temp)) > y2 <- lapply(y,function(x) paste(x[!is.na(x)],collapse=";")) > > global2001 <- datos[,-19:-53] > > global2001[1,"CODPA"] <- 1 > global2001$CODPA <- y2 > global2001$CODPA <- unlist(global2001$CODPA) > > > > > > Example of a file: > >> str(datos) > 'data.frame': 112598 obs. of 53 variables: > $ Identificación.do.Paciente : chr "34" "41" "42" "46" ... > $ Número.de.Historia : int 3024659 3028931 3030905 3033514 > 3037754 3039062 3039851 3048020 3049659 3049659 ... > $ TSI : chr "580208NCEE0010" > "770802ROOR0019" "710720GEUS1015" "770319GLOO0011" ... > $ Identificador.interno.de.episodio: int 2001033879 2001042319 > 2001036188 > 2001030007 2001039108 2001041196 2001063540 2001031533 2001031565 > 2001056967 ... > $ Ano.Alta : int 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 > 2001 2001 2001 2001 ... > $ Data.Ingreso : chr "16/02/2001" "27/04/2001" > "09/03/2001" "18/01/2001" ... > $ Data.Alta : chr "20/02/2001" "30/04/2001" > "10/03/2001" "21/01/2001" ... > $ Sexo : chr " MULLER" " MULLER" " > HOME" " MULLER" ... > $ Idade.en.anos : int 43 23 29 23 48 27 80 42 42 42 ... > $ Código.Concello : int 15030 15092 15030 15030 15019 > 15030 15032 15014 15005 15005 ... > $ Concello : chr "CORUÑA, A" "VIMIANZO" "CORUÑA, > A" "CORUÑA, A" ... > $ Hospital.abrev. : chr "A CORUÑA" "A CORUÑA" "A CORUÑA" > "A CORUÑA" ... > $ Motivo.de.Alta : chr "DESTINO A DOMICILIO" "DESTINO A > DOMICILIO" "DESTINO A DOMICILIO" "DESTINO A DOMICILIO" ... > $ Cód..Diagnóstico.Ppal.completo : chr "218.0 " "890.1 " "998.89" "650. > " ... > $ Diagnóstico.Ppal.completo : chr "LEIOMIOMA UTERINO SUBMUCOSO" > "HERIDA ABIERTA DE CADERA Y MUSLO-COMPLICADA" "OTRAS COMPLICACIONES > ESPECIFICADAS DE PROCEDIMIENTO" "PARTO NORMAL" ... > $ GRD : int 359 443 453 373 796 372 14 758 > 450 450 ... > $ Descrición..do.GRD : chr "PROC. SOBRE ÚTERO E ANEXOS POR > CA.IN SITU E PROCESO NON MALIGNO SEN CC" "OUTROS PROCEDEMENTOS > CIRÚRXICOS POR LESIÓN TRAUMÁTICA SEN CC" "COMPLICACIÓNS DE TRATAMENTO > SEN CC" "PARTO SEN COMPLICACIÓNS" ... > $ Peso.GRD : num 1.098 0.948 0.601 0.58 3.846 ... > $ Lista.de.códigos.de.diagnóstico : chr "218.0" "890.1" "998.89" "650." > ... > $ X : chr "" "E986" "780.2" "V27.0" ... > $ X.1 : chr "" "" "780.4" "" ... > $ X.2 : chr "" "" "381.3" "" ... > $ X.3 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.4 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.5 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.6 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.7 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.8 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.9 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.10 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.11 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.12 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.13 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.14 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.15 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.16 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.17 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.18 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.19 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.20 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.21 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.22 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.23 : num NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ... > $ X.24 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.25 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.26 : num NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ... > $ X.27 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.28 : chr "" "" "" "" ... > $ X.29 : num NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ... > $ X.30 : num NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ... > $ X.31 : num NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ... > $ X.32 : num NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ... > $ X.33 : logi NA NA NA NA NA NA ... >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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? 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