Sorry if I could not understand your problem properly. Are you looking for this type of example? > assign(paste("x", 1, "level", sep=""), 4) > x1level [1] 4 Thanks, -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/prettyR-tp2245115p2245210.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.