Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Harring
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:22 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Question about simulation design...
>
> Help R list servers,
>
> I have 500 external data sets for a simulation study that I would like
> to bring into R to analyze. They have the names data1.dat, data2.dat,
> ..., dataN.dat
>
> Is there a way to automatize the bringing in of these data sets in R
> using the read.table function within a looping cycle?
>
> For example...
>
> for (j in 1:N){
> data_"j" = read.table("data"j".dat, header=F)
>
> executable code
> .
> .
> .
> }
>
> bring in the next data set.
>
> SAS uses a ampersand "&" to automatize the process.
>
> Example code:
>
> data _NULL_;
> set final;
> filename out "C:\data&k..dat";
> file out;
> put variables;
> run;
>
> I would welcome any insight into how to address this issue.
>
> Thank you.
> Jeff Harring
>
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