[R] Re: A Problem I'm having with R

Peter Malewski malewski.peter at MH-Hannover.de
Mon Jul 5 14:48:32 CEST 1999


of course, this is wrong


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>

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is it (...too fast with email...)

P.

> g.l.
> Peter
>
> Martin Maechler wrote:
>
> > Dear Stuart Washington,
> >
> >   please ask these kind of questions on the mailing list "R-help"
> >   to which I am now forwarding.
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> >    to find out on subscribing to R-help
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> > Regards : Martin Maechler
> >
> >     StuW> Dear Sir, I'm having a problem getting R to do a particular
> >     StuW> action which I know it's likely to be able to perform.  I'm new
> >     StuW> to programming so I know the answer to this question could range
> >     StuW> from the very simple to the very complex, but here goes:
> >
> >     StuW>       I have a while loop which, in each of its iterations, is
> >     StuW> supposed to reassign a filename with a number at the end.  I'll
> >     StuW> illustrate below:
> >
> >     StuW> M<-function(n,...)
> >     StuW> {
> >     StuW>  while(n > 0)
> >     StuW>  {
> >     StuW>     fn.[n]<-sample(...)
> >     StuW>     ###Here, a number n is supposed to be appended to the end of
> >     StuW>     ###a filename fn
> >     StuW>     n <- n-1
> >     StuW>     ###Here, the value of n is decremented by one
> >     StuW>  }
> >     StuW>  c(fn.[1:n])
> >     StuW>  ###Here, all filenames created from the loop which have a number
> >     StuW>  at the end ranging from 1 through whatever number n is assigned
> >     StuW>  to (obviously n MUST be an interger) are concatenated into one
> >     StuW>  matrix.
> >     StuW> }
> >
> >     StuW>     I am fully aware that what I've written above has no
> >     StuW> chance in hell of working in R.  Somehow, there must be a command
> >     StuW> which will allow me to assign numbers to the end of a file name
> >     StuW> for each loop iteration. And then a command which will allow me
> >     StuW> to concatenate them all together.  If you don't have the time to
> >     StuW> answer this directly, just point me in the direction of a command
> >     StuW> that will do so.
> >
> >     StuW> Thank you for your time,
> >     StuW> Stuart z Washington
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* P. Malewski
* Hannover Medical School
* Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
* Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
* Tel.:+49 511 532 3194
* Fax.:+49 511 532 3190
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