1. I have forwarded this to the list in order to increase your chance of getting a response. I hope that is OK.
2. I would have thought that by putting in the effort to understand the tutorial is how a complete beginner advances beyond that stage. Cheers, Bert On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Sahana Srinivasan <sahanasrinivasan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Um. Yes. I wouldn't have posted without having looked stuff up. Most > documentation is written in a way that is a little tough for a complete > beginner to understand. > > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> wrote: >> >> Have you read "An Introduction to R" (ships with R) or other of the >> many web tutorials. If not, please do so before posting. >> >> -- Bert >> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Sahana Srinivasan >> <sahanasrinivasan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello :) >> > I'm just starting out with R and would appreciate your help with a >> > couple >> > of problems I am running into. >> > I have used Sys.glob to get a list of all filenames having a particular >> > file extension (in my case, *.txt) >> > I would now like to use this list in the following manner: I would like >> > to >> > use each filename from the list and open that file into a tab separated >> > matrix and proceed. >> > How can I go about iterating through each filename in the list and then >> > opening each of the files? >> > I believe as.matrix can be used to open the txt file as a table, is that >> > correct? >> > >> > I know these are beginner queries but I would love your help. Thank you >> > in >> > advance :) >> > >> > [[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. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Bert Gunter >> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics >> >> Internal Contact Info: >> Phone: 467-7374 >> Website: >> >> http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm > > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.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.
