[R] somebody help me about this error message...

[John Kane]

paste("a",2,sep="") is simply creating a new character "a2"

Why not just 
a2 <- 4
?

--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Joseph Lee <seokhyung83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joseph Lee <seokhyung83 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R] somebody help me about this error message...
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 12:13 AM
> 
> I created variables automatically like this way
> 
> for(i in 1:5){
>     nam <- paste("a",i,sep="")
>     assign(nam,1:i)
> }
> 
> and then, i want to insert a new data into "a2" variable.
> so, i did next
> sentence
> 
> paste("a",2,sep="") <- 4
> 
> so, i got this error message
> 
> Error in get(paste("a", 2, sep = ""))[1] <- 4 : 
>   target of assignment expands to non-language object
> 
> anyone knows abou this error message and tell me how to
> solve thie problem,
> please......
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