Question

I know how to do this individually. However, I have more than 1000 files. I decided to use a for loop. However, it seems like I did not find the correct way to evaluate my variables.

Here is my code

setwd('C:/data')
filenames=dir() #find file names

for (i in filenames){
  adt = substr(x = i, start = 1, stop = nchar(i)-4)
  name=paste("data_", adt, sep="")
  assign(name, read.csv(i,header=T,sep=",")) #read each file and assign a variable name starting with data_ to it
  func=paste('name[is.na(name)] <- 0',sep="") # here is the place I have problem. R will not consider name is a parameter whose values change in each iteration
  eval((text=func))

  }

Answer 1

You could assign the results of read.csv to a temporary variable, replace the NAs, then assign to name

for (i in filenames){
  adt = substr(x = i, start = 1, stop = nchar(i)-4)
  name=paste("data_", adt, sep="")
  tmp <- read.csv(i, header=TRUE, sep=",")
  tmp[is.na(tmp)] <- 0
  assign(name, tmp, pos=.GlobalEnv)
}