[R] Creating objects (data.frames) with names stored in character vector

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 24, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Kent Alleman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm fairly new to R.  I'm a chemist, not a programmer so please bear  
> with me.
>
> I have a large data.frame that I want to break down (subset) into  
> smaller data.frames for analysis.  I would like to give the  
> data.frames descriptive names which I have stored in a character  
> vector.  My original thought was that I want the subsets to show up  
> as individual objects, but haveing them stored in a list is fine  
> (maybe better).
>
> I can create a list of subsetted data.frames like this:
>
>> Lst = list(subset1 = (subset (blablabla)), subset2 =  
>> (subset(blabla)))
> but I have to provide the component names (subset1, subset2) manually.

lstnames <- paste("subset", 1:2, sep="_")
names(Lst) <- lstnames

>
> I would like to pull the component names from an existing character  
> vector, but so far my attempts have failed.
>
> Any advice is appreciated, even if the advice is "don't do that."
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kent
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT