[R] Automating object creation

[Zachary Patterson]

I am new to R. I would like to automate the creation of a number of
vectors but can't seem to get the string formatting to work.

Here's what I would like to be able to do:

Suppose we have a vector:
x <- c(2,4,5)

I would like to be able to create a set of vectors whose names are
associated with the values in x - e.g.

x2 <- 0
x4 <- 0
x5 <- 0

I have tried with a for loop and eval and sprintf, paste, etc. but end
up with the following error:

Error in sprintf("%s%i", "x", 1) <- 0 :
  target of assignment expands to non-language object

How can I assign a string formatted name to a vector?

Any help appreciated,
Zak