[R] looping over a string

Thomas Schwander r_lover at web.de
Thu Jan 22 21:27:00 CET 2009


Greg Snow schrieb:
> I don't see right off why the one works and the other doesn't, but this looks like one of those cases that would be better done using a list rather than global variables.
>
> Instead of assigning the variables in the global workspace, create a list and assign them there.  Then you can use lapply instead of a loop and you avoid the potential pitfalls associated with globals.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>   
Greg,

thanks for the answer. The difference is, that in the first case I 
assign a value to a "string", but afterwards I want to read the value of 
the "string".

Trying to get it with lists.

Cheers,
Thomas




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