Hi all, Thanks everyone for your advice. They have been helpful.
Just for the record, I am using ... lapply(dir(path = filePath, pattern = "^test_"), function(x){read.table(file = paste(filePath, x, sep = ""), sep = ",", header = TRUE) } ) to load the files kind regards Chibisi On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Try this: > > sapply(dir(patt="^test_"), read.table, sep = ";", header = TRUE) > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to read a bunch of csv files using read.table() that are named >> "test_xxxxxx.csv" where "xxxxxx" has no particular pattern. Is there a way >> of reading all the files by specifying a truncated file name e.g. "test_" >> with some wild card characters, or would I have to laboriously create some >> vector with the "xxxxxx" names and iterate or lapply() over it? >> >> Kind regards >> >> Chibisi >> >> [[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. >> > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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