fortune('parse')
But if you have a vector of file names you can create a blank list and
read.table each file into a list. I generally find that if I'm reading a
bunch of files in at the same time they are probably related and I will end
up coming back and putting them all in to a list anyways.
file.names <- c('name 1', 'name 2', 'name 3')
my.list <- list()
for (i in file.names) {
temp <- read.table(paste(i, '.txt', sep = ''))
# assign temp to i if desired
assign(i, temp)
# or put it in the list
my.list[[i]] <- temp
}
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 3/2/10, carol white <wht_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > How to turn a character string into an unevaluated R object? I want to
> load some
> >
> I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for:
> > as.name("iris")
> iris
> > parse(text="iris")
> expression(iris)
> attr(,"srcfile")
> <text>
> > head(eval(as.name("iris")))
> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
> 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa
> 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
> 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
> 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
> 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
> > head(eval(parse(text="iris")))
> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
> 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa
> 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
> 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
> 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
> 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
>
> Liviu
>
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