Hi all,
 
Hope someone can help me.  I start out with a matrix called haplo with 600 rows and two columns.  To start with, the elements of the matrix are character strings of 20 numbers.  I then want to create separate objects, called ha1-ha600, that are the concatenated 20 + 20 numbers, as numeric.  I am having no trouble doing anything except getting the index i to paste to the object ha(i) in some fashion.  When I do substring(haplo[(i)...) it works fine, but I can't seem to create objects that are ha1 or ha2 etc., containing the 40 number row I just created in the loop.  I've tried paste but I can't seem to get it to do the right thing.
 
For this example, nc=20
 
for (i in 1:600) {
tst<-substring(haplo[(i),1],1:nc,1:nc)
a1<-as.numeric(tst)
tst<-substring(haplo[(i),2],1:nc,1:nc)
a2<-as.numeric(tst)
ha<-append(a1,a2)
ha(i)<-ha # DOESN'T WORK
}
 
TIA,
Kristin Nicodemus

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