Re: [R] Help for loop

2010-12-17 Thread jim holtman
Not sure about getting the file names, but you are 'extending' the data structure on each iteration, which is inefficient; try 'lapply' instead: small.data <- do.call(rbind, lapply(mysites, function(.file){ try(base <- read.table(.file, sep=";", header=T, as.is=T, fileEncoding="windows

[R] Help for loop

2010-12-17 Thread Daniel
Hello all, Is there any way to get each file from a website list and aggregate in a data frame? Otherwise I have to type 23 thousand web address into a long script like it: base1 <- read.table("site 1", sep=";", header=T, fileEncoding="windows-1252") base2 <- read.table("site 2", sep=";", header=T