Hello everyone,
I’m relatively new to R and programming in general, as this question will show. I have a dataset of 250 files that I need to analyse. What I need to do is to divide it up into subsets of ~12 files each, and compare each file against a set of the other 11. By compare, I mean run a particular script that does a few things and hopefully ouputs a csv file. I have this script working but only on a low level of file against a defined set.
I don’t mind writing a script to just do it the slower way of analysing a set of 12 a time (instead of the script working on all 250 at once), if it makes it much easier.
So, my question is, how do I write a loop to do this? If I write something like
x<- 1:12
filename<- paste (“first bit”, x, “second bit”.filetype)
while {
test(x) against (reference set, which i want to be everything but file X in this set of 12 files)
series of functions comparing test against ref (this is the bit that works already)
write.table “filename.csv”
}
Is that anywhere near right?
