The usual response to this sort of question is usually something like the
following:

assign() will do what you want; get() runs the other direction. But the more
R way to do it is to put all the models in a list.

Michael

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Jim Bouldin <bouldinjr@gmail.com> wrote:

> This has got to be incredibly simple but I nevertheless can't figure it out
> as I am apparently brain dead.
>
> I just want to convert the elements of a character vector to variable
> names,
> so as to then assign formulas to them, e.g:
> z = c("model1","model2"); I want to assign formulas, such as lm(y~x[,1])
> and
> lm(y~x[,2]), to the variables "model1" and "model2".
>
> There are of course, many more than 2 models involved, so brute force is
> the
> option of absolute last resort.
> Thanks for any help.
> --
> Jim Bouldin, Research Ecologist
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