What would be the best way to read a list of filenames and headings from a csv file?
The CSV file is structured as two columns, with column one being the filename and column two being a heading e.g.: ANA110915004A_3PERIOD_TmAvg-rdata.csv,Pre-DA ANA110915006A_3PERIOD_TmAvg-rdata.csv,DA-10^-6 ANA110915012A_3PERIOD_TmAvg-rdata.csv,DA-10^-4 ANA110915016A_3PERIOD_TmAvg-rdata.csv,Washout I want to be able to open the file using read.csv and use the heading as the header of a graph. Reading the filenames from the directory with list.files() works but then I don't have the headings that go with the file e.g.: filenames<-list.files(pattern="*.csv") for (i in seq_along(filenames)) { con<-read.csv(filenames[i], headers=TRUE, sep=',') } I tried the code below (which I posted in a different thread) but the solutions that people offered me didn't get it to work. The code results in 'Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : 'file' must be a character string or connection # Read filenames from csv file files <- read.csv(file="files.csv",head=FALSE,sep=",") # for each filename read the file for (i in 1:length(files)) { # f becomes the next row inthe file f<-files[i,] # the header to be used for the graph is in column 2 of f head=f[2] par(mfrow=c(4,2)) # the filename to be used is in column 1 of f con<-read.csv(file=f[1], header=TRUE, sep=',') tmp<-con$value2 data<-normalize_js(tmp,-1,1) time<-con$time # run the waveform analyser waveformanalyser(data,time,head) } Regards Jannetta -- =================================== Web site: http://www.jannetta.com Email: janne...@henning.org =================================== [[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.