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Betel
Betel

Reputation: 161

Importing multiple GPX files using st_read()?

Hi i have multiple gpx files stored in a folder and i wish to read all of then in one go using R's SF package and put it under different names.

I tried this code : just like how its explained in most of the tutorials for .CSV files

setwd("C:\\Documents")
mydir = "feb 19 - Copy"
myfiles = list.files(path=mydir, pattern="\\.gpx", full.names=TRUE)
myfiles

The result i got is: character(0)

For the explanation purpose, the gpx traces can be freely downloaded from https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces and can be stored in a file and then explained

Please Help. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 983

Answers (1)

Betel
Betel

Reputation: 161

The problem is solved. The mistake lies in the path of the directory as explained in the comment by Nicolas Velasquez. Checking for the problem using

setwd("C:\\Documents")
list.dirs()

and then verifying whether the folder is there or not. Through that code I identified that the directory is "./gps/feb 19 - Copy" and not just "feb 19 - Copy". So my new code is

mydir =  "./gps/feb 19 - Copy"

And then reading the files using the following code chunk

myfiles = list.files(path=mydir, pattern=".+\\.gpx", full.names=TRUE)
myfiles

Upvotes: 1

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