I am trying to import and merge a set of csv files using the following code, but it doesn't seem to be passing the by=c("X","Y") argument to the merge function. Any recommendations on how to fix this? Thank you
csvfiles <- list.files(path = ".", pattern='bbg_.*\\.csv$')
csvfiles <- paste("fx/",csvfiles,sep="")
csvfiles
my.df <- do.call("merge",list(lapply(csvfiles, read.csv, header = TRUE), by=c("date","fx_code")))
merge
doesn't accept more than 2 data.frames, so you can't pass it a larger list using do.call
:
do.call(merge, list(iris, iris, iris))
#Error in fix.by(by.x, x) :
# 'by' must specify one or more columns as numbers, names or logical
Use Reduce
instead:
Reduce(function(x, y) merge(x, y, by="Species"), list(iris, iris, iris))
#works
do.call
accepts a list of all arguments, so try:
my.df <- do.call("merge",append(lapply(csvfiles, read.csv, header = TRUE), list(by=c("date","fx_code")) )
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22644780/merging-multiple-csv-files-in-r-using-do-call