Dear R wizards,
I have a folder containing 1000 files. For each file, I need to extract the
first row of each file, paste it to a new file, then write out that file. Then
I need to repeat this operation for each additional row (row 2, then row 3,
etc) for 23 rows in each file.
I can do this with a for loop (as below).
Is there a way to use some of the indexing power of R to get around this nasty
loop?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions
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newoutfile <- data.frame()
list <- list.files("c:/data")
file = 1
for(file in list) {
row <- file[1, ]
newoutfile <- rbind(row, newoutfile)
file = file + 1
write.csv(outfile, file = "output.csv")
}
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