R help - Feb 2012 - syntaxe problem

Hello,
I want to create 10 dataframe  using a for loop.
I don t know what to do to create 10 different dataframes whose name is
parametrized with variable i.
This syntaxe fails. It create a unique fataframe called dfn.
Any input will help
Thanks
>  for (i in 1:10){
+ filename=paste("avail4",i,sep = "_")
+ dfn=read.table(filename)
+ }


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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Adel ESSAFI <adelessafi at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to create 10 dataframe ?using a for loop.
> I don t know what to do to create 10 different dataframes whose name is
> parametrized with variable i.
> This syntaxe fails. It create a unique fataframe called dfn.
> Any input will help
> Thanks
>
>> ?for (i in 1:10){
> + filename=paste("avail4",i,sep = "_")
> + dfn=read.table(filename)
> + }
You may want to create a list of 10 data frames.

dfn = list();

 for (i in 1:10){
filename=paste("avail4",i,sep = "_")
dfn[[i]]=read.table(filename)
}

This way dfn[[1]] will be the data frame read from the first file,
dfn[[2]] from the second file etc.

Hope this helps,

Peter