[R] Loop on characters

[Phil Spector]

megh -
    The best way to organize similar objects in R is to
put them into a list.  If you keep this in mind when you're
first organizing your data, it's no harder than giving each object
a separate name.  For example

> l = list(l1,l2,l3)

The reason that this is a good idea in R is that functions
like sapply, lapply, and mapply automatically operate on each
element of a list, and return the answer in a suitable R object. 
(Note that in your example, you would get an error because you 
hadn't defined count1.  And why should you?)

So the answer you want is

> count1 = sapply(l,length)
> count1
[1]  4  6 52

Hope this helps.
                                        - Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu





On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, megh wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> suppose I have three vectors like :
>
> l1 = 1:4
> l2 = 4:9
> l3 = 16:67
>
> now I want to construct a loop like :
>
> for (i in 1:3)
>   {
>     count1[i] = length(li) # i.e. it will take l1, l2, l3 according to
> value of i
>   }
>
> Can anyone please tell me how to do that?
>
> Regards,
>
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