Dear jim, Yes, it's true, the data are separated onto new lines as follows: January 11, 2009 January 11, 2009 October 19, 2008 October 13, 2008 August 16, 2008 June 19, 2008 April 19, 2008 April 16, 2008 February 9, 2008 September 2, 2007
I tried your attempt and it didn't work either; it returned the error message: Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : 'file' must be a character string or connection On 2011-01-17, at 2:02 PM, jim holtman wrote: > try: > > mylist <- lapply(a, read.table, header = TRUE, sep = '\n') > > also is the separator really '\n' meaning a new-line? What exactly > does the data look like? > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Simon Kiss <simonjk...@yahoo.ca> wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm trying to read in 50 text filess with dates as content to create a list >> of tables. >> >> a is the list of filenames that need to be read in. >> >> The following command returns the following error >> mylist<-lapply(a, read.table(header=TRUE, sep="\n")) >> >> Error in read.table(header = TRUE, sep = "\n") : >> element 1 is empty; >> the part of the args list of 'is.character' being evaluated was: >> (file) >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions? >> Yours, Simon Kiss >> ********************************* >> Simon J. Kiss, PhD >> Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University >> 73 George Street >> Brantford, Ontario, Canada >> N3T 2C9 >> Cell: +1 519 761 7606 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ********************************* Simon J. Kiss, PhD Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University 73 George Street Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2C9 Cell: +1 519 761 7606 ______________________________________________ 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.
