[R] non-language object

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matt Pocernich wrote:

> How do I paste together text and number so that it is acceptable as an
> object to which I can assign a value?
>
> > paste("file", 1, "max", sep="") <- 1
> Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language object
> >

Use assign.  As in

> assign(paste("file", 1, "max", sep=""), 1)
> ls()
[1] "file1max"


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