character vector as input to function?

x<-scan("~/rstuff/data/"filename)
#for example, if filename is a0.dat, it will scan("~/rstuff/data/a0.dat")  

Try:

filename_c("a0.dat")
paste("~/rstuff/data/", filename, sep="")

[1] "~/rstuff/data/a0.dat"
 
Nicholas


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