[R] Variable definition problem

[Pierre Kleiber]

  The statement in your for loop doesn't make much sense.  It's
attempting to assign something to the function paste().  Instead,
log(co$co[co$day==i]) should probably be in the argument list of
paste() and the result should then be assigned to a character
object, i.e. something like:

    sometxt[i] <- paste("logco",i,log(co$co[co$day==i], sep="")

If you let us know what you're trying to do, we might be more
help.

   Pierre


"T. Hotchi" wrote:
> 
> Hello, what does this error message indicate and how do I avoid this?
> (sample code below)
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -Tosh
> 
> #read in the data table
> co<-read.table("co.txt",header=T,as.is=T)
> 
> for (i in 1:3){
>    paste("logco",i, sep="")<-log(co$co[co$day==i]")
> }
> 
> Gives the error:
> Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language object
> 
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