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comp199501
2009 Mar 26
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Reading in files with variable parts to names
...year and month. E.g. comp198604.asc represents April of 1986 - 'comp' is fixed in each case. Years range between 1986 to 1995 and months are between 1 and 12.
Just to be clear, there are 12 files associated with each year: e.g. comp198601, comp198602, ... comp198612 through to comp199501, comp199502 ... comp199512.
I am trying to automate the reading in of these files, but am struggling to find an adequate way of achieving this. The closest I've got is by doing:
year <- 1986:1995
month <- sprintf("%02d", 1:12) # formats numbers to 2 digits (for maintaining leading zero...