Re: st: reading all files in a directory

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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Here's some code to line up with your R code:

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*setwd("/Users/DM/Data")             
loc mydir "/Users/DM/Data"
cd "`mydir'"
loc files t1 t2

**AC = c() 
clear
sa "AC.dta", replace emptyok

**for ( x in files ) { 
foreach x of local files {
**u = read.csv(x, header=T)
**read file "x"
**u$dataset = x
clear
insheet using "`mydir'//`x'_2002.csv", delimiter(";")
**AC$state = c("AC") 
gen state = "AC"
**AC = rbind(AC, u) 
append using "AC.dta"
sa "AC.dta", replace
}
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YOu should also take a look at the macro extended function "dir" (-help extended_fcn) if you want to avoid having to
define your 'files' macro.

- Eric

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On Apr 15, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Daniel Marcelino wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I've a problem to read thousands of CSV files. I used to do that using
> R for what I wrote some loops. For teaching purpose I'm converting
> these codes into Stata language, so I wondering if someone could drive
> me to that.
> 
> setwd("/Users/DM/Data")                    [here I set the woking
> directoryin Stata I do this cd "/Users/DM/Data"]
> files = list.files(pattern = "csv$")          [here package scan for
> every CSV file]
> AC = c()                                             [here I create an
> emptydata set to allocate all CSV files]
> for ( x in files ) {                                  [here I read each file
> found in working directory]
> u = read.csv(x, header=T)                  [here in "u" I put every
> read file "x"]
> u$dataset = x
> AC = rbind(AC, u)                             [finally, here I append every
> read file to the `AC']
> AC$state = c("AC")                          [and generate a flag to which set
> of file it came from].
> }
> 
> 
> I just start writing a similar to Stata.
> 
> cd "/Users/DM/Data"
> foreach x in files {
> insheet using "/Users/DM/Downloads/v_2002.csv", delimiter(";")
> gen state = "AC"
> }
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Marcelino
> http://danielmarcelino.zip.net
> Skype: dmsilva.br
> 
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