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How do you read multiple .txt files into R?

I'm using R to visualize some data all of which is in .txt format. There are a few hundred files in a directory and I want to load it all into one table, in one shot.

Any help?

EDIT:

Listing the files is not a problem. But I am having trouble going from list to content. I've tried some of the code from here, but I get a bug with this part:

all.the.data <- lapply( all.the.files,  txt  , header=TRUE)

saying

 Error in match.fun(FUN) : object 'txt' not found

Any snippets of code that would clarify this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • Thanks for all the answers!

    In the meanwhile, I also hacked a method on my own. Let me know if it is any useful:

    library(foreign)

setwd("/path/to/directory")

files <-list.files()

data <- 0


for (f in files) {

tempData = scan( f, what="character")

data <- c(data,tempData)    

}