[R] how to assign a value?

[Patrick Burns]

You are basically in R Inferno Circle 8.1.40.

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf

On 11/12/2011 15:27, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I hope to modify values in a vector or matrix in the following code:
>
> for (i in 1:9) {
> assign(paste("a.", i, sep = ""), 1:i)
> get(paste("a.", i, sep = ""))[i] <- i+50
> }
>
> I get the following error message:
>
> Error in get(paste("a.", i, sep = ""))[i] <- i + 50 :
> target of assignment expands to non-language object
>
> I have read the FAQ "How can I turn a string into a variable?", however,
> I don't find a way to deal with:
>
> get(paste("a.", i, sep = ""))[i] <- i+50
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Jinsong
>
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