[R] Repeat if

[Jim Lemon]

Birgit Lemcke wrote:
> Hello,
> (Power Book G4, Mac OS X, R 2.5.0)
> 
> I would like to repeat the function range for 85 Vectors (V1-V85).
> I tried with this code:
> 
> i<-0
>  > repeat {
> + i<-i+1
> + if (i<85) next
> + range (Vi, na.rm = TRUE)
> + if (i==85) break
> + }
> 
> I presume that the Vi is wrong, because in this syntax i is not known  
> as a variable. But I don´t know how to say that it is a variable here.
> Would be nice if somebody could help me.
> Perhaps I´m thinking too complicated and there is an easier way to do  
> this.
> 
Hi Birgit,
This may be what you want:

for(i in 1:85)
  print(do.call("range",list(as.name(paste("V",i,sep="")))))

Jim