You might want to have a look at the plyr package - http://had.co.nz/plyr. The intro pdf describes a couple of problems that are similar to yours.
Hadley On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Wade Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have roughly fifty dataframes and a dataframe with the names of the fifty > dataframes. I want to perform the same set of manipulations on all fifty > dataframes, but can't find a way to batch process from a list with the > dataframe names using a loop. Is there a way to read the file names from > the dataframe with the names and then call the referenced dataframe? This > would save me a lot of typing. > > Thanks for any help, > > Wade > > [[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. > -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.