[R] including a variable in another variable name

[Erik Iverson]

You'll want to use paste within the function "assign".

However, consider using a list object to store this data to avoid 
clutter (both in your workspace and head) and make subsequent data 
analysis function calls easier.

Best,
Erik Iverson

Georg Ehret wrote:
> Dear R community,    I wish to include a variable (e.g. slice of "a" below)
> in another variable's name. My objective would be to get a variable-name
> "data_A" and so on. How can I do this?
> 
>> a<-LETTERS[1:25]
>> a
>  [1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H" "I" "J" "K" "L" "M" "N" "O" "P" "Q" "R"
> "S" "T" "U" "V" "W" "X" "Y"
>> paste("data_",a[1])<-c(1,2,3)
> Error in paste("data", a[1]) <- c(1, 2, 3) :
>   target of assignment expands to non-language object
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you and wishing you an excellent day!
> Georg.
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> Georg Ehret
> Johns Hopkins
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