[R] Iteration through a list in R

[Bert Gunter]

1. I have forwarded this to the list in order to increase your chance
of getting a response. I hope that is OK.

2. I would have thought that by putting in the effort to understand
the tutorial is how a complete beginner advances beyond that stage.

Cheers,
Bert

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Sahana Srinivasan
<sahanasrinivasan.91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Um. Yes. I wouldn't have posted without having looked stuff up. Most
> documentation is written in a way that is a little tough for a complete
> beginner to understand.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
>>
>> Have you read "An Introduction to R" (ships with R) or other of the
>> many web tutorials. If not, please do so before posting.
>>
>> -- Bert
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Sahana Srinivasan
>> <sahanasrinivasan.91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello :)
>> > I'm just starting out with R and would appreciate your help with a
>> > couple
>> > of problems I am running into.
>> > I have used Sys.glob to get a list of all filenames having a particular
>> > file extension (in my case, *.txt)
>> > I would now like to use this list in the following manner: I would like
>> > to
>> > use each filename from the list and open that file into a tab separated
>> > matrix and proceed.
>> > How can I go about iterating through each filename in the list and then
>> > opening each of the files?
>> > I believe as.matrix can be used to open the txt file as a table, is that
>> > correct?
>> >
>> > I know these are beginner queries but I would love your help. Thank you
>> > in
>> > advance :)
>> >
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>>
>> Bert Gunter
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Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics

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Phone: 467-7374
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