[R] Naming output file

[Ben Bolker]

   As stated earlier in the thread, this is where you would need to use 
get(paste0("bop", im)) [the analogue of assign].  This unwieldiness is 
the exact reason that several posters are encouraging you to change your 
approach and store these objects in a list ...


On 2024-06-24 8:16 a.m., Steven Yen wrote:
> Great, thanks. Eric's suggestion is the most simple. Here's a resulting
> problem. In the call to ame.bopa in a loop, I like inputs in the call to
> ame.bopa to be bop1, bop2, bop3,... Thanks.
> 
> for (im in 1:m) {
> ame<-ame.bopa(bop,y1.level=y1value,y2.level=y2value,jindex=jindex1,vb.method="invH",joint12=TRUE,
>                   printing=FALSE,testing=TRUE)
> }
> 
> On 6/24/2024 7:57 PM, Eric Berger wrote:
>> assign(paste0("bop",im),boprobit(eqs,mydata,wt=weight,method="BHHH",tol=0,reltol=0,gradtol=1e-5,Fisher=TRUE))
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 2:56 PM Steven Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>>
>>      Thanks Eric. I am not following your suggested line. Would you
>>      just edit my line 4? Thanks.
>>
>>      On 6/24/2024 7:51 PM, Eric Berger wrote:
>>>      How about
>>>
>>>      assign(paste0("bop",im), boprobit( etc ))
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 2:41 PM Steven Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>>>
>>>          I would like a loop to
>>>
>>>          (1) read data files 2010midata1,2010midata2,2010midata3; and
>>>
>>>          (2)  name OUTPUT bop1,bop2,bop3.
>>>
>>>          I succeeded in line 3 of the code below,
>>>
>>>          BUT not line 4. The error message says:
>>>
>>>          Error in paste0("bop", im) <- boprobit(eqs, mydata, wt =
>>>          weight, method
>>>          = "NR", : target of assignment expands to non-language object
>>>          Please
>>>          help. Thanks.
>>>
>>>          m<-3
>>>          for (im in 1:m) {
>>>          mydata<-read.csv(paste0("2010midata",im,".csv"))
>>>          paste0("bop",im)<-boprobit(eqs,mydata,wt=weight,method="BHHH",tol=0,reltol=0,gradtol=1e-5,Fisher=TRUE)
>>>          }
>>>
>>>
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