Reading multiple files from a directory, R

Question

I am having difficulty with one step in my code to read in a folder of text files and convert it to a dtm. The problem is that, for some reason, my computer is only able to int

Answer 1

List.filesonly gives you the file names, not file names with full path. Try

files <- as.character(list.files(path="[file path]"))
readLines(paste("[file path]",.Platform$file.sep,files[1],sep=""))

Answer 2

directory <- "C://temp"  ## for example
filenames <- list.files(directory, pattern = "*.*", full.names = TRUE)