[R] Assignments in loops

[Peter Dalgaard]

Murray Jorgensen <maj at stats.waikato.ac.nz> writes:

> Greetings all. Any help with the following would be appreciated.
> 
> I want to create a data frame for each file in a directory. The following
> code does not work but it may show what I am trying to do:
> 
> carmakes <- c('BMW','Chrysler','Citroen','Fiat','Ford','Holden','Honda',
> 'Mercedes','MG','Mitsubishi','Nissan','Peugeot','Renault','Subaru','Toyota',
> 'VW')
> for (brand in carmakes) {
>    fyle <- paste("c:/data/cars03/",brand,".txt",sep="")
>    brand <- read.table(fyle, header = TRUE, sep = "\t",na.strings = 
>             c("-","POA"), colClasses=c("character",rep("numeric",7)),
>              comment.char = "#")
> }
> 
> I need something like an unquote() function that will allow the "brand" on
> the LHS of the assignment to be treated as an object name instead of a
> character string.
> 
> Murray

assign(brand, read.table(blablabla)) 

(Overlooked by many, but I would have expected that you'd been around
for long enough to have noticed it....)

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