Automatic file reading

Hi,

I want to do automatic reading of a number of tables (files) stored in 
ascii format
without having to specify the variable name in R each time.  Below is an 
example
of how I would like to use it (I assume files pair1,...,pair8 exist in 
spec. dire.)

for (i in 1:8){
 name <- paste("pair",i,sep="")
 ? ? ? <- read.table(paste("/home/andersm/tmp/",name,sep=""))
}
pairlist <- vector(8, mode = "list")
for (i in 1:8){
   name <- paste("pair",i,sep="")
   pairlist[[i]] <- read.table(paste("/home/andersm/tmp/",name,sep=""))
}

or use assign(), but you don't want to do that really.

Uwe Ligges
after which I want to have pair1,...,pair8 as tables.

But I can not get it right. Anybody having a smart solution?

Best regards,
Anders Malmberg

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Automatic file reading

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