You need to use paste(), as in paste(samp, ".csv", sep="")
Use that as your filename. Sarah On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:05 AM, pierz <s.pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to use samp as a part of a filename that I can change. My source > files are .csv files with date as the file name, and I would like to be able > to type in the date (later perhaps automate this using list.files) and then > read the csv and write the pdf automatically. I have tried different > combinations with "" and () around samp, but I keep getting the error > "object 'samp.csv' not found". > > samp <- "20110317" > read.csv(file=samp.csv,...) > #next R processes some code that works fine, and then should save the > figure: > pdf(file=samp.pdf,...) > dev.off() > > How can I get R to replace samp as 20110317 in front of .csv and .pdf? > > Best, > Sjouke > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
