R help - Jan 2011 - Importing multiple text files with lapply.

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

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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