The error message might mean that you have an empty file. It is
probably better to use a list for reading in the data and then combine
them at the end. "try" may also catch your errors:
all.dat <- lapply(list.files(mydir), function(.file){
try(read.csv(.file))
})
all.dat <- do.call(rbind, all.dat)
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM, t c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a few hundred .csv files in a folder on my hard drive, and I would
> like to combine them all into one file. They are all the same data, but the
> program that collected the data saved a file every 4 hours. I can combine
> the files one at a time using rbind, but am having a problem automating it in
> a for loop. The loop runs for a while, and finally gives an error message
> "no lines available in input". I would appreciate any help you can give.
> What I have so far is below. Thanks! Tim
>
>
> files<-list.files(mydir) #List of every file in
> the working directory
>
> for (i in 1:length(files)) #Loops through files
> {
> dat <- read.csv(files[i], header=T) #Reads one file at a time
> all.dat<-rbind(dat) #Binds the file just
> read to the end of all.dat
> }
>
>
>
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