[R] Combined variable names

Jean Eid jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca
Tue Nov 30 23:59:55 CET 2004


see ?assign and ?get
i,e  instead ob <blank> below have something like assign(paste("v", i,
sep=""), a[i:N])
and if you need to loop over calling them say get(paste("v", i, sep=""))

of course typing v1 will call the variable...



Jean

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Tobias Muhlhofer wrote:

> I am trying to define a large number of variables through a loop construct.
>
> I have my loop variable i being cycled through 1:100 and I would like
> the variables produced by this to be called
>
> vi (i.e. v1 v2 v3 etc)
>
> so, for example I'm going:
>
> for(i in 1:100) {
>
> <blank> <- a[i:N] # or whatever else you want to put on the right side
>
>
> }
>
> where N is previously defined.
>
> What goes in for <blank>?
>
> Thanks,
> 	Toby
>
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