Importing multiple text files with lapply.
Dear jim, Yes, it's true, the data are separated onto new lines as follows: January 11, 2009 January 11, 2009 October 19, 2008 October 13, 2008 August 16, 2008 June 19, 2008 April 19, 2008 April 16, 2008 February 9, 2008 September 2, 2007 I tried your attempt and it didn't work either; it returned the error message: Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : 'file' must be a character string or connection
On 2011-01-17, at 2:02 PM, jim holtman wrote:
try: mylist <- lapply(a, read.table, header = TRUE, sep = '\n') also is the separator really '\n' meaning a new-line? What exactly does the data look like? On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Simon Kiss <simonjkiss at yahoo.ca> wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to read in 50 text filess with dates as content to create a list of tables. a is the list of filenames that need to be read in. The following command returns the following error mylist<-lapply(a, read.table(header=TRUE, sep="\n")) Error in read.table(header = TRUE, sep = "\n") : element 1 is empty; the part of the args list of 'is.character' being evaluated was: (file) Does anyone have any suggestions? Yours, Simon Kiss ********************************* Simon J. Kiss, PhD Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University 73 George Street Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2C9 Cell: +1 519 761 7606
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********************************* Simon J. Kiss, PhD Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University 73 George Street Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2C9 Cell: +1 519 761 7606