[R] how to automatically create objects with names from a string list?

[Simon Blomberg]

Or with mapply

name <- c("foo", "bar", "baz")
val <- 1:3
mapply(assign, name, val, pos=1)

Cheers,

Simon.


On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:24 -0700, Moshe Olshansky wrote:
> You can use either assign or eval.
> 
> Something like
> 
> > name <- c("foo", "bar", "baz")
> > for (i in 1:length(name)) assign(name[i],i)
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/6/08, Mark Farnell <mark.farnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mark Farnell <mark.farnell at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [R] how to automatically create objects with names from a string list?
> > To: R-help at r-project.org
> > Received: Wednesday, 4 June, 2008, 3:15 PM
> > Suppose I have a string of objects names:
> > 
> > name <- c("foo", "bar",
> > "baz")
> > 
> > and I would like to use a for loop to automatically create
> > three
> > objects called "foo", "bar" and
> > "baz" accordingly.  Then how can this
> > be done" (so that in the workspace, foo = 1, bar = 2
> > and baz=3)
> > 
> > for (i in name) {
> >     .....
> > }
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
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