The error message arises because you are sometimes delimiting character strings using non-ASCII open and close double quotes, '“' and '”', instead of the old-fashioned ones, '"', which have no open or close variants. This is a language syntax error, so R didn't try to compute anything.
The others' comments are still valid - you need to read the files named by these strings to produce R datasets and combine the datasets. -Bill On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 8:36 AM gabrielle aban steinberg < gabrielleabansteinb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I would like to merge 18 csv files into a master data csv file, but > each file has a different number of columns (mostly found in one or more of > the other cvs files) and different number of rows. > > I have tried something like the following in R Studio (cloud): > > all_data_fit_files <- rbind("dailyActivity_merged.csv", > "dailyCalories_merged.csv", "dailyIntensities_merged.csv", > "dailySteps_merged.csv", "heartrate_seconds_merged.csv", > "hourlyCalories_merged.csv", "hourlyIntensities_merged.csv", > "hourlySteps_merged.csv", "minuteCaloriesNarrow_merged.csv", > "minuteCaloriesWide_merged.csv", "minuteIntensitiesNarrow_merged.csv", > "minuteIntensitiesWide_merged.csv", "minuteMETsNarrow_merged.csv", > "minuteSleep_merged.csv", "minuteStepsNarrow_merged.csv", > “minuteStepsWide_merged.csv", "sleepDay_merged.csv", > "minuteStepsWide_merged.csv", "sleepDay_merged.csv", > "weightLogInfo_merged.csv") > > > > But I am getting the following error: > > Error: unexpected input in "rlySteps_merged.csv", > "minuteCaloriesNarrow_merged.csv", "minuteCaloriesWide_merged.csv", > "minuteIntensitiesNarrow_merged.csv", > "minuteIntensitiesWide_merged.csv", "minuteMETsNarrow_merged.csv" > > > (Maybe the R Studio free trial/usage is underpowered for my project?) > > [[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.