[R] Names

[Jan Goebel]

Hello David,

maybe this helps you:

> assign(paste("myvar","1",sep="."),1:10)
> ls()
[1] "myvar.1"
> myvar.1
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

Greetings

jan

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, David Scott wrote:

> 
> I am trying to create a set of vectors which have similar names. They have
> a common part and an extra unique part. I am sure I have seen questions on
> this before but I have been unable to find it in the archive. There are
> examples of sets of names for columns of a data frame, but not for
> individual vectors.
> 
> Suppose I want vectors named myvar.1 myvar.2 etc.
> 
> I tried:
> > as.name(paste("myvar","1",sep="."))<-1:10
> Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language object
> 
> But:
> > is.language(as.name(paste("myvar","1",sep=".")))
> [1] TRUE
> 
> Any suggestions as to how to do this?
> 
> David Scott 
> 
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