With R, loop over data frames, and assign appropriate names to objects created in the loop

Question

This is something which data analysts do all the time (especially when working with survey data which features missing responses.) It\'s common to first multiply impute a se

Answer 1

Another approach is to use the plyr package to do the looping. Using the example constructed by @chl, here is how you would do it

require(plyr)

# read csv files into list of data frames
data_frames = llply(csvdat, read.csv)

# run regression models on each data frame
regressions = llply(data_frames, lm, formula = y ~ .)
names(regressions) = csvdat