getHES: Read-in HES data
In n8thangreen/HESmanip: Hospital length of stay data preprocessing and analysis

Read-in all data files (in .data file format) in a given directory and combines by row into a single data.frame.

1	getHES(dir)

dir

Directory containing only STATA .dta files to be read-in.

##---- Should be DIRECTLY executable !! ----
##-- ==>  Define data, use random,
##--	or do  help(data=index)  for the standard data sets.

## The function is currently defined as
function (dir) 
{
    combinedData <- NULL
    filenames <- list.files(dir)
    indivData <- lapply(1:length(filenames), function(x) read.dta(paste(dir, 
        "/", filenames[x], sep = "")))
    combinedData <- do.call(rbind, indivData)
    combinedData
  }