Re: [R] please help, iteration through a list of files and plot each one

There's probably a better way to do it, but here's one way: require(stringr) windows() file_list <- list.files(pattern=".txt") for (file in file_list) { dataset <- read.table(file, header=TRUE, sep="\t") plot(dataset) savePlot(filename=str_replace(file,".txt",""),type="png")

Re: [R] please help, iteration through a list of files and plot each one

K. - Original Message - From: David Lyon To: "r-help@r-project.org" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: [R] please help, iteration through a list of files and plot each one I have many files in 1 directory, file names end in .txt. Each file has 2 columns col1 co

[R] please help, iteration through a list of files and plot each one

I have many files in 1 directory, file names end in .txt. Each file has 2 columns col1 col2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 I want to make a list of the file names and iterate through each plotting them in a separate file $filename\.png with the png swapped for txt. So far I have this, can someone help