[R] Macros in R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Its a FAQ.

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-turn-a-string-into-a-variable_003f

On 2/25/07, Monika Kerekes <mkerekes at web.de> wrote:
> Dear members,
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> I have started to work with R recently and there is one thing which I could
> not solve so far. I don't know how to define macros in R. The problem at
> hand is the following: I want R to go through a list of 1:54 and create the
> matrices input1, input2, input3 up to input54. I have tried the following:
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> for ( i in 1:54) {
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>      input[i] = matrix(nrow = 1, ncol = 107)
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>      input[i][1,]=datset$variable
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> }
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> However, R never creates the required matrices. I have also tried to type
> input'i' and input$i, none of which worked. I would be very grateful for
> help as this is a basic question the answer of which is paramount to any
> further usage of the software.
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> Thank you very much
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> Monika
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