[R] iterative variable names

Jim Holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 11:23:25 CET 2011


?assign

for (i in 1:10) assign(paste('x_', i, sep = ''), i)

but before you do this, consider using a 'list'; check the archives since this is asked a lot.
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On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:00, bcdc <bia.cdc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to assign iterative names to variable, but all my attempts have
> failed. I have a loop, and for every iteration, I need to create a variable,
> and I'd like to name them iteratively, such as:
> 
> for(i in 1:10)
> {
>   x_i <- c(values)
> }
> 
> I need it to return ten variables: x_1, x_2, ..., x_10
> 
> How can I do it?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> Beatriz
> 
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