[R] assign vector name

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

Well, you can do it:

assign(paste("myname", name[1], sep = "."), seq(1:10))

but this looks clumsy to me, as if you were trying to make R do
something the same way that you do things in some other system.  This is
nearly always a bad idea. My advice is to learn how to do things the R
way.


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Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2007 2:12 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] assign vector name


Hello,

I have got a vector, for example seq(1:10), and I have an array "name"
defined before which contain the vector name I would like to use. So
name[1]= "price". I would like to name the vector in the following
codes:

paste("myname", name[1]) <- seq(1:10)

But it does not work. Could anyone give me some advice? Many thanks.
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