R 3.0.3 rbind multiple csv files

Question

R 3.0.3: I have 40 csv files all structured the same that I want to rbind into one file so I can calculate the mean of one column.

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Answer 1

In more contemporary plyr approach:

files <- list.files(...)
data <- adply(files, 1, read.table)

(it's saturday afternoon: untested code, but the approach is fine)