R help - Aug 2006 - Fast way to load multiple files

Hi,

Instead of having to program a loop to load several workspaces in a directory,
it would be nice to store the filenames in a list "filelist" and then
to apply "load" to this list
"lapply( filelist, load)"
Unfortunately, although it seems that R is loading the files, the contained
objects are not available in the workspace afterwards.
Any hints what I'm doing wrong or how to circumvent the problem?
Peter
--

A reproducible example here would help (please see posting guide). A guess:
is your filelist a list of (quoted) character strings? Correct pathnames to
the files with correct separators for your OS?

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
 
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process."  - George E. P. Box
 
 
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> Subject: [R] Fast way to load multiple files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Instead of having to program a loop to load several 
> workspaces in a directory, it would be nice to store the 
> filenames in a list "filelist" and then to apply "load"
to this list
> "lapply( filelist, load)"
> Unfortunately, although it seems that R is loading the files, 
> the contained objects are not available in the workspace afterwards.
> Any hints what I'm doing wrong or how to circumvent the problem?
> Peter
> --
> 
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