[R] rename object

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:36:29 +0100, Eric Lecoutre
<lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be> wrote :

>Note though that if you are planning some simulations, many guRus would say 
>that you should use a list.
>
>nsimul <- 100
>simOut <- vector(mode="list",length=nsimul)
>names(simOut) <- paste("simu",1:nsimul,sep="")
>
>for (i in 1:nsimul){
>         ###
>         simOut[i]<- resultsofsimulation.i
>         ###
>}

Be careful with those brackets:  that should almost certtainly be
simOut[[i]], putting resultsofsimulation.i into the i'th position of
simOut.

Your syntax would put resultsofsimulation.i[[1]] into that place, and
that's not usually what one wants.

Duncan Murdoch