onverting a file name to the name of a table, disabling quote and converting into matrix

[carol white <wht_crl@yahoo.com>]

Hi,
I have converted the file names to data frames by "assign" and disabling the quote in read.table. now if i can convert the generated data frame into matrix by "as.matrix", the quoting gets enables (matrix elements are quoted). If I don't use
assign (i, as.matrix(get(i)), pos = 1), the matrix elements are not quoted and they are if assign, as.matrix is used


So Why does quoting get enabled with as.matrix?

files.lst = list.files(".")
    for (i in files.lst){
          assign( i, read.table(i, check.names=F,header=T,comment.char = "", quote = ""), pos = 1)
        assign (i, as.matrix(get(i)), pos = 1)
    }

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