[R] re ferring to a group of vectors without explicit enumeration

[shalu]

Thanks very much. This is what I implemented. I found a similar example
elsewhere too. 
It works fine now.



jholtman wrote:
> 
> I would suggest that you use a list to store the values since it is
> easier to create and reference:
> 
>> output <- list()
>> for (i in 1:10) output[[i]] <- seq(i)
>>
>> output
> [[1]]
> [1] 1
> 
> [[2]]
> [1] 1 2
> 
> [[3]]
> [1] 1 2 3
> 
> [[4]]
> [1] 1 2 3 4
> 
> [[5]]
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5
> 
> [[6]]
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
> 
> [[7]]
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> 
> [[8]]
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 
> [[9]]
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> 
> [[10]]
>  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
> 
>>
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM, shalu <shahlar at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to define 25 vectors of varying lengths, say y1 to y25 in a
>> loop,
>> and then store the results of some computations in them. My problem is
>> about
>> using some sort of concatenation for names. For example, instead of
>> initializing each of y1 through y25, I would like to do it in a loop.
>> Similar to cat and paste for texts, is there anyway of using y"i" for the
>> vector name where i ranges from 1 to 25, so ultimately it refers to the
>> vector y1,..,y25?
>> Varying lengths is not a problem. To start with each has only length 1
>> and
>> then I will be adding to each vector based on some results.
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> 
> 
> 
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