[R] macro variable in R?

[Benilton Carvalho]

maybe

for (i in 1:10) assign(paste("matrix", i, sep="_"), matrix(nrow=i, ncol=i))

suffices?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:08 PM, karena <dr.jzhou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need to create 10 matrices. say matrix 1-10.
>
> matrix_1 is 1 by 1
> matrix_2 is 2 by 2
> matrix_3 is 3 by 3
>   .
>   .
>   .
> matrix_10 is 10 by 10
>
> I am just wondering if there are some functions in R that are similar to the
> macro variables in SAS. so I can create these 10 matrices by doing:
> for (i in 1: 10) {
> matrix_$i <- matrix(nrow=i, ncol=i)
> }
>
> rather thank creating these matrices one by one manually.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> thanks,
>
> karena
>
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