To repent for my sins, I'll also suggest that Hadley Wickham's "plyr" package (http://had.co.nz/plyr/) is also useful/parsimonious in this context:
a <- ldply(cust1_files,read.table) On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:32 AM, baptiste auguie <ba...@exeter.ac.uk> wrote: > may i suggest the following, > > > a <- do.call(rbind, lapply(cust1_files, read.table)) > > (i believe expanding objects in a for loop belong to the R Inferno) > > baptiste > > On 30 Mar 2009, at 12:58, Mike Lawrence wrote: > >> >> cust1_files = >> list.files(path=path_to_my_files,pattern='cust1',full.names=TRUE) >> a=NULL >> for(this_file in cust1_files){ >> a=rbind(a,read.table(this_file)) >> } >> write.table(a,'cust1.master.txt') > > _____________________________ > > Baptiste Auguié > > School of Physics > University of Exeter > Stocker Road, > Exeter, Devon, > EX4 4QL, UK > > Phone: +44 1392 264187 > > http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag > ______________________________ > > -- Mike Lawrence Graduate Student Department of Psychology Dalhousie University Looking to arrange a meeting? Check my public calendar: http://tinyurl.com/mikes-public-calendar ~ Certainty is folly... I think. ~ ______________________________________________ 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.