I have two text files that are measure the X and Y coordinates of cells. The command dim(file.txt) returns NULL for each of the files. One of the files contains lines of X coordinates (xline1.1, x line1.2, x line1.3) followed below by a second line of coordinates for a separate entity (x line2.1, x line2.2, x line2.3) the other contains corresponding Y coordinates and I'm trying to transform the files into separate the files to create a new file for each line such that the X and Y coordinates will line up side by side like so:

X1      Y1  AND   X2 from line 2, Y2 from line 2
x1.1    y1.1         x2.1                 y2.1
x1.2    y1.2         x2.2                 y2.2

etc.

I am inexperienced but my plan so far, is to use the lapply function to apply create.file() and file.path() to each consecutive line of the X and Y files such that a new file will be created for each line. I plan to use merge() to merge all of the newly created X files with the corresponding Y files somehow.

Any critiques are welcome.