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From: Bliese, Paul D MAJ WRAIR-Wash DC
[mailto:Paul.Bliese at na.amedd.army.mil]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:52 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Reading in multiple files
I apologize if this is a FAQ -- I kind of recall seeing
something along
these lines before, but I couldn't find the message when I
searched the
archives.
Problem:
1. I have hundreds of small files in a subdirectory
("c:\\temp") and I would
like to combine the files into a single data frame.
2. Individually, it is easy to read each file
DATA<-read.csv("c:\\temp\\file1a.csv",header=T)
3. It is also fairly easy to add new files to the data frame
one at a time:
DATA<-rbind(DATA,read.csv("c:\\temp\\file1b.csv",header=T))
What is tedious about this solution is that we have to change
the file name
in step 3 every time.
Is there a way to have R identify all the files in a
directory and create
one big data frame?
I'm working in Windows with R 1.6.2.
Thanks
Paul
MAJ Paul Bliese, Ph.D.
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Phone: (301) 319-9873
Fax: (301) 319-9484
paul.bliese at na.amedd.army.mil