How do you read multiple .txt files into R? [duplicate]

Question

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.

Answer 1

You can try this:

filelist = list.files(pattern = ".*.txt")  #assuming tab separated values with a header     datalist = lapply(filelist, function(x)read.table(x, header=T))   #assuming the same header/columns for all files datafr = do.call("rbind", datalist)