[R] Remove double quotation marks

[Lisa]

Thank you for your help. But here I just want to combine some vectors by
column based on the numbers determined by other R script. 

For example, I have five vectors:

v1 <- c(0, 1, 0)
v2 <- c(1, 1, 0)
v3 <- c(2, 1, 2)
v4 <- c(2, 2, 1)
v5 <- c(0, 1, 1)

If I am going to combine the first two vectors, and one more other vector
determined by my other R script, say, vector 5.  Then my R script is

x <- 5
cbind(v1, v2, paste("v", x, sep = ""))

The output is

     v1  v2      
[1,] "0" "1" "v5"
[2,] "1" "1" "v5"
[3,] "0" "0" "v5"

This is not what I want. I want to get this:

     v1  v2  v5     
[1,]  0   1   0
[2,]  1   1   1
[3,]  0   0   1

Can you give me further suggestions or comments? Thanks a lot.

Lisa



Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Lisa <lisajca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your reply. But in the following case, “cat()” or “print()”
>> doesn’t work.
>>
>> data.frame(cbind(variable 1, variable 2, cat(paste("variable", x),
>> "\n"))),
>> where x is a random number generated by other R script.
>>
>> Lisa
> 
>  Yes, because you are Doing It Wrong. If you have data that is indexed
> by an integer, don't store it in variables called variable1, variable2
> etc, because very soon you will be posting a message to R-help that is
> covered in the R FAQ...
> 
>  Store it in a list:
> 
>  v = list()
>  v[[1]] = c(1,2,3,4,5)
>  v[[2]] = c(4,5,6,7,8,9,9,9)
> 
> then you can do v[[i]] for integer values of i.
> 
> If you really really must get values of variable by name, perhaps
> because someone has given you a data file with variables called
> variable1 to variable99, then use the paste() construction together
> with the 'get' function:
> 
> [ not tested, but should work ]
> 
>  > v1="99"
>  > v2="102"
>  > i=2
>  > get(paste("v",i,sep=""))
>  [1] 102
> 
> Barry
> 
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