On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Patrick Buetzberger wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm a new R user and I've got a little problem:
> I would like to read several files at once (which works) and create R
> objects for each individual file (which doesen't work) within a loop:
> this is the way I've tried to program this:
>
> fn<-list.files(path >
"/home/klimet/patrick/LAEGEREN/NEBEL/FOGEVENT2000/", pattern=NULL,
> all.files=FALSE, full.names=FALSE)
> for(i in seq(1,nfn,1)){
>
>
fin<-paste("/home/klimet/patrick/LAEGEREN/NEBEL/FOGEVENT2000/",fn[i],sep="")
>
> fi <- as.matrix(read.table(fin,skip=1))
> }
>
> The i in fin and fi should create new objects for every loop with i
> being the number, like f1, f2,f3 and so on. The way I did it, it reads
> i as a character and overwrites the object in every loop.
>
> Thanks for any hints....
?assign, something like
assign(paste("f", i, sep = ""),
as.matrix(read.table(fin,skip=1)))
Overwriting fn seems fine to me.
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