[R] Function "assign"

Ferdinand Alimadhi falimadhi at iq.harvard.edu
Fri Feb 3 21:09:31 CET 2006


example<-matrix(nrow=5,ncol=5)
example[c(1,3),]<-matrix(1:10,nrow=2,ncol=5)



Marco Venanzi wrote:

>I'm trying to apply the function "assign( )" to a subset of a matrix, but it doesn't work...
>
>i.e.
>
>example<-matrix(nrow=5,ncol=5)
>assign("example[c(1,3),]",matrix(1:10,nrow=2,ncol=5))
>
>but matrix "example" doesn't change ( get("example[c(1,3),]") is not useful to me)...how can I do this assignment?
>Thanks in advance,
>
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