All, I have a workspace containing only data frame objects. I would like to loop though each one and clean-up text columns in them. How can I have R loop through the list? I have tried to find an answer in R help but the closest solution I can find is to make a static list of data frames, as illustrated in this recent post:
---------begin post On Tuesday 19 February 2008 (19:51:15), TLowe wrote: > Hey Folks, > > Could somebody show me how to loop through a list of dataframes? I want to > be able to generically access their elements and do something with them. > > For instance, instead of this: > > df1<- data.frame(x=(1:5),y=(1:5)); > df2<- data.frame(x=(1:5),y=(1:5)); > df3<- data.frame(x=(1:5),y=(1:5)); > plot(df1$x,df1$y); > plot(df2$x,df2$y); > plot(df3$x,df3$y); > > I would like to do something like: > (pseudocode) > dfarray[1] = df1 > dfarray[2] = df2 > dfarray[3] = df3 > for (each i in dfarray) { > plot(i$x, i$y); > } It's surprisingly simple: for(df in list(df1,df2,df3)) plot(df$x,df$y) Best, Martin ---------------------end post I would like to avoid having to type-out a very long list over and over again. I have tried every variation I could think of similar to: for(df in list(noquote(ls()))) { do stuff with df } I know this has to be possible. What am I missing? Many Thanks- ______________________________________________ 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.