use something like the following (untested) files <- paste("C:/d", 1:3, ".txt", sep = "") dats <- vector("list", 3) for (i in 1:3) { dats[[i]] <- read.table(files[i], header = TRUE) } dats do.call("rbind", dat)
I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm Quoting Stefo Ratino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I am beginner in R and I would like to solve the following problem: > Suppose that we have three files to be red in R d1, d2, and d3 > >> d1 > id x1 x2 > 1 1 4 n > 2 2 3 h > 3 3 0 f >> d2 > id x1 x2 > 1 1 2 r > 2 2 3 u > 3 3 1 f >> d3 > id x1 x2 > 1 1 2 a > 2 2 1 w > > Is there any library or function that one can read this datasets like > for(i in 1:3) > d[i] <- read.table(file=d[j].txt, header=T) > > and is it possible to delete the header for each file and to have > them in one data frame like > >> d > 1 1 4 n > 2 2 3 h > 3 3 0 f > 4 1 2 r > 5 2 3 u > 6 3 1 f > 7 1 2 a > 8 2 1 w > 9 3 1 f > > I really appreciate your help! > Stefo > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.