[R] using a variable in a subset of a dataframe

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

You can try this:

x <- data.frame()
for(i in LETTERS[1:5]) x[1:10, i] <- rnorm(10)
x


On 01/04/2008, Georg Ehret <georgehret at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R community,    I am using a dataset and would like to define new
>  variables using a R variable:
>
>  e.g.
>
>  for (i in 1:10){
>    dataset$i<-something
>  }
>
>  But this is not the right way, I get only one variable in "dataset"...
>  How can I change this?
>
>  Thank you!
>  Georg.
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Henrique Dallazuanna
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