[R] assigment

[Robert Ruser]

Thank you, but unfortunately it's not  resolve my problem. After
writing in R console e.g.  a2 a should get the values.
Do you know how to read file 2 into R?

2010/11/19 Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com>:
> Hi Robert,
>
> What about a named list?  This will generalize to your two text files
> one with data, the other with names.
>
> x <- c("a2","b7","c8")
> y1 <- c(1,2,3,2)
> y2 <- c(4,2,7,5,4,3,8)
> y3 <- c(1:10)
>
>
> dat <- list(c(1,2,3,2), c(4,2,7,5,4,3,8), c(1:10))
> names(dat) <- c("a2","b7","c8")
> dat
> # example
> dat$a2
> dat[["a2"]]
>
>
> ## or using your variables
> dat2 <- list(y1, y2, y3)
> names(dat2) <- x
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Robert Ruser <robert.ruser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello R Users,
>> I have vectors
>> x <- c("a2","b7","c8")
>> y1 <- c(1,2,3,2)
>> y2 <- c(4,2,7,5,4,3,8)
>> y3 <- c(1:10)
>> and I want to assign values form vector y1 to a new variable which
>> name comes from the 1st value of the vector x etc. How to do it using
>> only vector x.  As a result I should have:
>> a2 <- y1
>> b7 <- y2
>> c8 <- y3
>>
>> More general problem: I have 2 txt files.
>> First is a one column
>> C4
>> C6
>> F
>> D
>> D1
>> D2
>> D5
>> D6
>> ....
>> Second is (non-define number of columns):
>> 44, 60, 65, 139, 138
>> 47
>> 48
>> 49, 46
>> .....
>> is it possible to automatically assign:
>> C4 <- c(44, 60, 65, 139, 138)
>> C6 <- c(47)
>> ...
>>
>> I would appreciate for any help.
>>
>> Robert
>>
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>
>
>
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> Joshua Wiley
> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
> University of California, Los Angeles
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