[R] Problem with loop in folders

[Bert Gunter]

What package is "read.dbf" from? What error message/behavior did you see?
Should it be:
 path<-setwd(paste0("inpath/",folder)) ## did you forget the "/" ?

Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:08 AM Shubhasmita Sahani
<shubhasmita.sahani using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
> I am trying to loop through the folders in the major working directory.
> Read the dbf file into the data frame then save the data frame as CSV file
> in another folder.
> For this, I have written this code, But not able to figure out where it is
> going wrong. Any ideas will be of great support.
>
>
>  setwd(choose.dir())
>  csvpath= "C:/plan/Learning/dummydata/csv/"
>  a<-list.dirs()
>  inpath<-"C:/workplan/Q2/Project1"
>
>  for (folder in list.dirs()[-1]) {
>
>    path<-setwd(paste0("inpath",folder))
>    dbf<-list.files(path, pattern = "*ward.dbf")
>    df <- read.dbf(dbf)
>    dbfname<-basename(dbf)
>    name<-file_path_sans_ext(dbfname)  # get the name of the file like
> agra_ward
>    write.csv( df, file = paste0("csvpath",name,"csv"))
>    print(path)
>
>  }
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Shubhasmita Sahani
>
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