[R] how to use do.call("rbind", get(list(mlist)))

[Uwe Ligges]

roger bos wrote:

> I have around 200 data frames I want to rbind in a vectorized way. 
> The object names are:
> 
> m302
> m303
> ...
> m500
> 
> So I tried:
> 
> mlist <- paste("m",302:500,sep="")
> dat <- do.call("rbind", get(list(mlist)))


   do.call("rbind", lapply(mlist, get))


Uwe Ligges


> and I get "Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : invalid first argument"
> 
> I know "rbind" is valid because 
> 
> dat <- rbind(m302, m303, m304, m305)
> 
> works, I am just too lazy to type it out to m500.
> 
> I also tried it without the get() portion, but then dat ends up being
> a column with just the names of the objects, not the objects
> themselves.
> 
> Thanks in advance for showing me the errors in my attempts.
> 
> Roger
> 
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