Wolski <wolski <at> molgen.mpg.de> writes: > > Hallo! > ?assign > > z<-"now" > assign(paste("go", z, sep = ".") ,10) Assuming that you wish to create a variable called go.now with the value of 10 in the caller environment to f: R> f <- function(z) assign(paste("go", z, sep = "."), 10, parent.frame()) R> f("now") R> go.now [1] 10