[R] Combined variable names

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

>Tobias Muhlhofer <t.muhlhofer at lse.ac.uk> wrote:
>	I am trying to define a large number of variables through a loop
>	construct.
>	
>He wants to do
>	for (i in 1:100) {
>	    assign(paste("v", i, sep=""), ....something or other...)
>	}
>
>This is, of course, a FAQ.  It's such a FAQ that I must have seen it
>once a day for the last several days.
>
>What I want to know is *WHY* people are doing this?
>  
>
Bad habits from less expressive languages?

Kjetil

>What, precisely, does it buy you to have variables called v1...v100
>rather than variables called v[[1]]...v[[100]]?
>Apart from persistent inconvenience, that is?
>
>What, really, is wrong with
>
>    v <- lapply(1:100, function (i) ....something or other...)
>
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