[R] read.table but more tables at once

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Sybille Wendel
<wendel.sybille at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a lot of data files (.txt) that I want to read in all at once, if
> possible.
> the files have names in time system. for example: RA940101, RA940102,
> RA940103, RA940104 an so on.
> (meaning: RA, year:91, month: here january, day of the month.)
>
> I tried something like
>
> vektor <- c("RA940101","RA940102","RA940103")
>
> for (x in 1:3)
> { data <- read.table(paste(vektor[x],sep=""),header=F) }
>
> But how can I put the vektor on the left side, so that data would be instead
> of data the three first days of the year 1994?

 Store in a list:

data = list()
 for(x  in 1:3){
   data[[vektor[x]]] = read.table(.......)
}

 then you can do data[["RA940101"]] to get that set of data.

 You can also do this by number:

 data[[x]] = read.table(....)

 and then get data[[1]], data[[2]] etc etc.

See any basic R help/tutorial for more information about 'lists'.

Barry