[R] piecing together statements (macro?)

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Read the FAQ 7.21:

http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-turn-a-string-into-a-variable_003f

Note that it points out that you don't really want to do this anyways.

On 3/9/07, toby909 at gmail.com <toby909 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am pretty new to R but saw stata and sas's macro facilities and am looking for
> how such things work in R.
>
> I am trying to piece together a series of statements:
>
>
> n = 5   #want to have it dynamic with respect to n
> for (j in 1:n) {
> eval(paste("x", j, "=x[", j, "]", sep=""))
> }
>
> I want the created statements 'x1=x[1]' immediately executed and tried to do
> that with eval() but that did not work.
>
> Any hints greatly appreciates.
>
> Thanks Toby
>
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