[R] Updating an object

[Uwe Ligges]

megh wrote:
> Let say, I have an arbitrary vector :
> 
> i=1
> assign(paste("dat",i,sep=""), rnorm(5))
> 
> Now I want to update that "dat1" vector by ommiting last 2 elements i.e.
> 
> dat1 = dat1[c(1:3)]
> 
> However here my problem is, as "dat1" depends on another variable "i", I
> cannot use above syntax directly. I want to automate above syntax such that
> I can run this for any "i". Is there any way?


Yes, but actually you want a list "dat" that contains vectors at 
positions i.

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks
> 
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