R help - May 2011 - reading multiple .dbf files

Hello..
I am currently working on running random forest to make predictions. For that I 
have a bunch of .dbf files from shapefiiles. Earlier I was running random forest
on those dbf files individually but now I have >1,000 such files and
procesisng
one by one is not an option. 

I started by trying to read multiple dbf files as:
>setwd (..)
>a=list.files()
> for (x in a)(u=read.dbf(x))
but i get error 
Error in get("read.dbf", "package:foreign")(dbf.name) : 
  unable to open DBF file

How can I read these files at once?

Thank you
Nav
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On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 08:40 -0700, Neera Thapa wrote:
> Hello..
> I am currently working on running random forest to make predictions. For
that I
> have a bunch of.dbf files from shapefiiles. Earlier I was running random
forest
> on those dbf files individuallybut now I have >1,000 such files and
procesisng
> one by one is not an option. 
> 
> I started by trying to read multiple dbf files as:
> >setwd (..)
> >a=list.files()
> > for (x in a)(u=read.dbf(x))
> 
> but i get error 
> Error in get("read.dbf", "package:foreign")(dbf.name) :
>  unable to open DBF file
> 
> How can I read these files at once?

What is the value of x after you get the error? x should be a file name.
Is it really a valid DBF file?

Jerome

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