Hi Beatriz,
Try
paste("val_mapped_petpe_", 1976:1981, "01.txt",
sep="")
Best,
Jorge.-
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Beatriz R. Gonzalez Dominguez <
aguitatierra@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to create a loop to select a series of files into my
computer
> but I haven't been successful until now. I've looked into different
> possibilities but none has worked. I'd appretiate if you could help me
by
> providing me with some ideas.
>
> Basically what I'd like to do is to create a character string variable
> [1:5], same as the one that could be obtained with 'list.files',
but using
> a 'for' loop.
>
> This is one of the things I've tried but obviously doesn't yield
the
> results I would like:
>
> for(i in 1976:1981){
> PE.files_01_7681 <- paste("val_mapped_petpe_", i,
"01.txt", sep="")
> paste(PE.files_01_7681[i])
> }
>
> Many thanks!
>
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