[R] Variable Names

[Jonathan Myles]

for(i in 1:4){
 eval(parse(text=paste("error.",i," <- i ",sep="")))
 }
> error.1
[1] 1
> error.2
[1] 2
> error.3
[1] 3
> error.4
[1] 4
> 

(but wouldn't a vector of length 4 be more convenient ....?)

Jonathan
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 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:07:43 +0000
   From: Konstantinos Euripides Vorloou <K.E.Vorloou at durham.ac.uk>
   Organization: Dept. of Economics - University of Durham (UK)
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   Dear R users,

   That's probably a silly question even for a newbie but :

   Is it possible to assign variable prices as variable names ?
   For instance, would something like the following work :

   for (i in 1:4)
   {
    error.i <- some_calculation
   }

   so "error.i" variables would be created for i=1,2,3,4
   i.e.  error.1 error.2 error.3 etc. etc.


   Costas
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