[R] how to split several objects' names

Sundar Dorai-Raj sundar.dorai-raj at pdf.com
Wed Jul 6 17:30:37 CEST 2005



wu sz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a string like "O1 O2 O3", O1, O2 and O3 are the names of three
> objects. How to split it into a vector or three new objects, and
> obtain their content? I try to use strsplit to do that, but seems it
> doesn't work like that.

Please provide an example of what you tried or a complete example (see 
posting guide in signature for tips). I get:

 > strsplit("O1 O2 O3", " ")
[[1]]
[1] "O1" "O2" "O3"

And if O1, O2, and O3 are objects then use ?get, as in:

O1 <- rnorm(10)
O2 <- rnorm(10)
O3 <- rnorm(10)
O <- strsplit("O1 O2 O3", " ")[[1]]
lapply(O, get)

> 
> And what is "<<-" for?   the same as "<-"?
> 

Did you try help("<<-")?

HTH,

--sundar




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