[R] eval function with javascript-semantics possible in R?

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

fileName <- "testfile%s"
lapply(sprintf(fileName, 1:2), read.csv, dec = ",")

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Chaehan So <chaehan.so at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear r-helpers,
>
> I am looking for an R-equivalent for the eval-function in javascript which
> can
> interpret a string as code on runtime, thereby allowing things like
>
> for (i in c(1:2))
> {
>
> eval(items + "i") <- read.csv(eval(filename+ i), dec=",");
>
> }
>
> which would execute (with filename="testfile"):
>
> items1 <- read.csv(testfile1, dec=",");
> items2 <- read.csv(testfile2, dec=",");
>
>
> The way I intend to use it is to define a string list containing names of
> date.frames,
> and interate this list to perform some function:
>
> createTable <- function(latentVariableNames)
> {
> for (currentName in names(latentVariableNames))
> {
> doSomethingWith(currentName)
>  }
> }
>
>
> Would be grateful for any help!
>
> Chaehan
>
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