Import multiple files into R

Hi

Best way is to put those files in one directory and start R from this directory or set this directory as working one.

?set.wd
Then you can use list.files() to get file names.
?list.files

myfiles<-list.files()

Than strip txt. E.g. by

filenames<-strsplit(list.files(), "\\."))

After that you can use for cycle to read all files, however I would prefer list structure.

files<-vector(mode="list", length(myfiles))

for (i in 1:length(myfiles)) {
files[[i]]<-read.table(myfiles[i])
names(files)[[i]]<-filenames[[i]][1]
}

Instead of 75 objects you will get one list object and you can easily use interactively or programmatically its parts.

Regards
Petr

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