Combining multiple files in with tidyverse

[williaml]

Something like this perhaps?

Using `purrr` to read multiple files

I do exactly this with NetCDF files (which, as of version 4, are acutally interoperable with HDF5 files) library(tidyverse) library(rhdf5) # first, here's our extractor function. you can use it anonymously # inside map_dfr; i'm separating it out here for clarity (and so you # can reuse it). the extractor needs to accept a filename and # return a data frame. hdf5_extractor = function(fname) { data = h5read(file = fname, name = "data") # what you do here depends on how objects inside # the file are structured. if they're just vectors, you can # create and return a data frame like this: return(data_frame( data$SCC_Follow_Info, data$something_else, data$a…

Reading and combining many tidy data files in R | Claus O. Wilke