Many thanks to everyone who helped me solve this problem.

I think I must have described my problem poorly, but Phil, Patrick and Jim
were able to see through the haze and suggest that I use a list to contain
the output from my loop. This solution works very well.

Thanks again for your help, Mark




On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Mark Na <mtb954@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear R helpers,
>
> I would like to write a loop that makes 4 objects (called A, B, C, and D)
> each of which contains ten random numbers.
>
> This attempt:
>
> individuals<-c("A","B","C","D")
> for(i in 1:length(individuals)) {
> individuals[i]<-rnorm(10)
> }
>
>
> does not work because "individuals[i]" is not the proper way to extract
> each letter from the object called "individuals" (rather, it tries to assign
> the random numbers to various positions within "individual")
>
> So, my question is, what should be to the left of the gets operator in the
> third line?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mark Na
>



-- 
Mark Na
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Canada

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