Read and rbind multiple csv files

If you're looking for speed, then try this:

require(data.table) ## 1.9.2 or 1.9.3
ans = rbindlist(lapply(filenames, fread))

Find files (list.files) and read the files in a loop (lapply), then call (do.call) row bind (rbind) to put all files together by rows.

myMergedData <- 
  do.call(rbind,
          lapply(list.files(path = "N:/Ring data by cruise"), read.csv))

Update: There is a vroom package, according to the manuals it is much faster than data.table::fread and base read.csv. The syntax looks neat, too:

library(vroom)
myMergedData <- vroom(files)