[R] converting a character string to an object name

[Bert Gunter]

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Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:39 AM Assa Yeroslaviz <frymor using gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to automate the way i read my tables. I have an Excel sheet I'm
> reading using openxlsx package. The sheet contains over 30 sheets, i would
> like to save each of them as separate objects.
>
> my workflow for now is as such:
>
> wb <- loadWorkbook(xlsxFile = "Output/Up_Down_Regulated_Gene_Lists.xlsx")
> NAMES <- gsub(pattern = " ", replacement = "_", x = names(wb))
> [1] "KO1_vs._WT_up"    "KO2_vs._WT_down"  "KO3_vs._WT_up"
> "KO1_vs._WT_down"  "KO2_vs._WT_up" ...
> for (i in 2:length(names(wb)) ){
>   tmp <- read.xlsx(wb, sheet = i)
>
> ... Here I would like to have each sheet read in and sacved as a separate
> data.frame.
>
> }
>
> Is there a way to read for each sheet the name from names(wb) and convert
> it to a name for the object?
>
> something like this
> The object  KO1_vs._WT_up will save the first sheet with the same name
> The object  KO2_vs._WT_down will save the second sheet.
> etc.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
> Assa
>
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