Importing several txt files from certain folder

Question

My goal is to import all txt files from a certain folder into a list.

So I do:

setwd(".../folder")
data <- list.files(pattern = "\\.txt$")
lis <- lapply(data, read.csv)

However, I would like to avoid using setwd(). So I can do:

data <- list.files(path = ".../folder", pattern = "\\.txt$")

But then of course I get an error message No such file or directory as read.csv looks in the wrong directory. How can I specify the folder in combination with importing all files in data?

Answer 1

Use the full.names statement in the list.files.

data <- list.files("../folder", pattern = "\\.txt",full.names = TRUE)