[R] indexing data.frames

[graham lawrence]

Dear R-help,

I have a series of data.frames (i1,i2,...,in) all containing the same number 
of items, but dissimilar content.  I would like to instal them in another 
data.frame, say index, so that I can access their items with index[i,j].

No matter how I try to set index up, its subframes cannot be indexed, 
because they all have the row number of 1.  What am I doing wrong? (I get 
the same result with lists, a data.frame of lists, or a list of data.frames)

Alternatively, does R contain an equivalent to the INDIRECT function found 
in spreadsheets, so that instead of doing, say, edit(i6), I could get 
instead edit(the vector named by the content of i6)?

Thank you in advance for your help
graham lawrence

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