> vect = c(10:20)
> for (i in 1:10) {
+   assign(paste("VAR",i,sep=""), vect[i])
+ }
> VAR1
[1] 10
> VAR2
[1] 11



2008/8/12 jimineep <jamesrperkins@hotmail.com>

>
> Hi guys,
>
> I want to create variable on the fly: for example
>
> for (i in 1:10) {
>    cat(paste("VAR",i,sep=""))
> }
> Will print VAR1, VAR2 etc up to VAR10. However I want to make these into
> variables, and then give them a value, for example:
>
> vect = c(10:20)
>
> for (i in 1:10) {
>    cat(paste("VAR",i,sep="")) = vect[i]
> }
>
> THis doesnt work but I hope it demonstrates what I'm trying to do: I'm
> trying to produce 10 variables, from VAR1 to VAR10, which have the numbers
> 11...20 respectively, so I would end up with
>
> VAR1 = 11
> VAR2 = 12
> ...
> VAR10 = 20
>
> Hope this makes sense!! Does anyone have any ideas?
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