[R] Concatenate a mix of numbers and letters to create a vector name

[Alain Guillet]

  Hi,

assign(paste(c("tmax.", 1950, 12), collapse="") ,1:10) does what you want.

Alain




On 26-Jul-10 16:23, Panos Hadjinicolaou wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Indeed the paste function results in  concatenation:
>   >  paste(c("tmax.", 1950, 12), collapse="")
> [1] "tmax.195012"
>
> but  I am looking for a way to subsequently get rid of the - " - in order to  use tmax.195012 as an object (e.g. to define a vector with that name).  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Panos
>
>    _____
>
> From: Dimitris Rizopoulos [mailto:d.rizopoulos at erasmusmc.nl]
> To: Panos Hadjinicolaou [mailto:p.hadjinicolaou at cyi.ac.cy]
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:48:31 +0300
> Subject: Re: [R] Concatenate a mix of numbers and letters to create a vector name
>
> have a look at function paste(), i.e., ?paste
>
>
>    I hope it helps.
>
>    Best,
>    Dimitris
>
>
>    On 7/26/2010 3:44 PM, Panos Hadjinicolaou wrote:
>    >  Dear all,
>    >
>    >  I am trying to create a vector name, for example tmax.195012 from  tmax., 1950 and 12. Obviously I don't wish to simply type it because  the 3 name components are changing in each iteration within a loop. Is  there any way of concatenating those 3 components (which are a mixture  of numbers and letters)?
>    >
>    >  Thanks for reading,
>    >
>    >  Panos
>    >
>    >  -----------------------------------------------------------------
>    >  Dr Panos Hadjinicolaou
>    >
>    >  Energy Environment&   Water Research Center (EEWRC)
>    >  The Cyprus Institute
>    >  ------------------------------------------------------------------
>    >   [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>    >
>    >  ______________________________________________
>    >  R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>    >  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>    >  PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>    >  and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>    >
>
>    -- 
>    Dimitris Rizopoulos
>    Assistant Professor
>    Department of Biostatistics
>    Erasmus University Medical Center
>
>    Address: PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands
>    Tel: +31/(0)10/7043478
>    Fax: +31/(0)10/7043014
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

-- 
Alain Guillet
Statistician and Computer Scientist

SMCS - IMMAQ - Université catholique de Louvain
Bureau c.316
Voie du Roman Pays, 20
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

tel: +32 10 47 30 50