[R] variables with dynamic names?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

With the style of whole objects encouraged for R that code looks
like this:

rowString <- LETTERS[1:3]; cols <- 3 # test data

mat <- outer(rowString, formatC(1:cols, flag = "0", width = 2), paste, sep = "")
mat <- paste(mat, "csv", sep = ".")
sapply(mat, function(el) { if (exists(el)) { DF <- read.table(el, sep
="\t"); ... }})

On 10/25/06, Antje <niederlein-rstat at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Thanks very much for your help.
> I found the solution. I created a matrix with Strings and within a loop
> I read the files and processed them
>
> wellInfo <- matrix(nrow = rows, ncol = cols)
> for(i in 1:rows) {
>    tempRow <- paste(rowString[i], formatC(c(1:cols), flag="0",
> width=2), sep="")
>    print(tempRow)
>    wellInfo[i,] <- tempRow
> }
>
> for(i in 1:rows) {
>    for(j in 1:cols) {
>        filename <- paste(wellInfo[i,j],".csv",sep="")
>        if( file.exists(filename)) {
>            file <- read.csv(filename, sep="\t", header=F)
>             ...
>          }
>      }
> }
>
> (It was quite simple, but I did not find the "paste" command before...)
> If there is something which could be done easier, just let me know.
>
> Ciao,
> Antje
>
>
>
> Antje schrieb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have the following problem. I have a set of CSV files and they are
> > named for a special position in a matrix (e.g. "A01.csv", "F06.csv",
> > "H11.csv")
> >
> > Now, I would like to read in the data of all these files and eveluate
> > something for each set (and write it at the position in a result matrix).
> > How can I realize this with R?
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Antje
> >
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