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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:21 PM Miluji Sb <miluj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your reply and the solution. Yes, I would like the date to be > the column header for all the files in the list. > > This is what tried following your suggestion; > > filelist = list.files(pattern = ".*.txt") > date <- 20000101 > > for (file %in% filelist){ > datalist <- read.table(file) > write.table(datalist, file= file, col.names= date) > } > > However, I get the following error > > Error: unexpected SPECIAL in "for (file %in%" > > > Is it something silly I am missing? Thank you again! > > Best, > > Milu > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:29 AM <cpolw...@chemo.org.uk> wrote: > > > I'd use a for loop. But I may be misunderstanding the q! > > > > > > filelist = list.files(pattern = ".*.txt") > > date <- 20000101 > > > > for (file %in% filelist) { > > > > datalist <- read.table(file) > > > > write.table( datalist, file= file, col.names= date) > > > > } > > > > Does what I think you want. > > I would actually write to a new filename (sub folder?) To avoid disaster! > > > > > > > > > > > > On 19 Jan 2021 23:45, Miluji Sb <miluj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I have more than 200 text files in a folder without header - example > > below. > > I would like to read, add a common date header to all the files, and > write > > (replace) the files. > > > > ## Read files > > filelist = list.files(pattern = ".*.txt") > > datalist = lapply(filelist, function(x)read.table(x, header=F)) > > > > ## What I want to add > > date <- 20000101 > > datalist _new <- lapply(datalist, function(x) rbind(x, date)) > > > > How do I add this date as a common header and replace the files? Any help > > will be highly appreciated. Thank you. > > > > Best, > > > > Milu > > > > ## Sample data > > xy <- dput(head(x,6)) > > structure(list(V1 = c("-5.28082885742185,-0.509039307", > > "-6.09873046874998,-0.349584961", > > "-2.07150878906248,6.264276123", "-1.11102905273435,6.365716553", > > "2.37749633789065,14.57106934", "4.9619079589844,18.91350708" > > )), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class = "data.frame") > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.