[R] Variable Names

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Konstantinos Euripides Vorloou wrote:

> Dear R users,
> 
> That's probably a silly question even for a newbie but :
> 
> Is it possible to assign variable prices as variable names ?
> For instance, would something like the following work :
> 
> for (i in 1:4)
> {
>  error.i <- some_calculation
> }

It's possible but difficult and probably not what you want.

You can do something like
 assign(paste("error",i,sep="."),some.calculation)

but it's much easier to use a vector:

error<-numeric(4)
for (i in 1:4) {
	error[i]<-some.calculation
  }


Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle


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