Try this:
do.call(rbind, mget(ls(pattern = 'data'), envir = .GlobalEnv))
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Christopher T. Moore <moor0...@umn.edu>wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to flexibly combine several data frames objects without
> specifying the exact names of the objects in memory. Should I use indexing
> to call those objects out of memory? I regularly use indexes to flexibly
> extract parts of data frames and lists and to read files from my hard drive,
> but I can't figure out how to do so with stored objects.
>
> In my case, all of the data frames of interest are formatted the same way
> and have been assigned to objects with the prefix "data.". The following
> examples combine only the names (not the objects themselves):
> rbind(ls()[grep("data.", ls(), fixed=T)])
> list(ls()[grep("data.", ls(), fixed=T)])
>
> Is there a way to get ls() (or some other function) to return the object
> instead of just the name? I searched the help files and the R-help archives
> but couldn't find a solution. Thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
> Chris
>
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