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Re: [S] Reading in Multiple Files

To: BBlair@dkb.com
Subject: Re: [S] Reading in Multiple Files
From: Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:00:57 +0100 (BST)
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On Tue, 30 May 2000 Bevan Blair <BBlair@dkb.com> wrote:

> I assume there is an easy way to do this but I seem to be coming up against a
> brick wall. I am using Splus 2000 on Windows NT.
> 
> Say I have a bunch of text files in a directory all with the same name 
> structure
> apart from a number at the tail end
> (e.g blah1, blah2 blah3 etc). Is there a simple way of reading all these files
> into splus at once so that blah1 for instance becomes
> a blah1 object in splus?


Is something like

files <- paste("blah", 1:3, sep="")
for(f in files) write(file=f, rep(f, 10))
for(f in files) assign(f, scan(f, ""))

what you are looking for?


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