Message-ID: <4026AA15.8070608@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 2004-02-08T21:28:53Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: iterating over files in a directory with R
In-Reply-To: <003601c3ee87$9eff4130$72180281@jawks2>
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Hadley
femke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm an R newbie and was wondering whether there are R commands for iterating over files in a directory. Basically what I want to do is to iterate over many files and apply some R functions to each file seperately.
>
> e.g. for (each file in a directory) do { some R calculation with the info in that file }
>
> Could someone please give me a pointer to how (or if) this might be done with R - I haven't yet been able to find anything relevant in the manuals. Or would I need to call each file with some language such as Java and then use R once I have the file name?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> femke
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