[R] automatic selection of object without loop

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 14:34:10 CEST 2011


did not see the "_l" so changes below:

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:33 AM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
> for (i in names(kinderrechte)){
>    q1 <- kinderrechte[, i]
>    i 1 <- get(paste(i, "_l", sep = ""))
> }
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Marion Wenty <marion.wenty at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> does anyone know the solution to this problem:
>>
>> I imported a dataframe from Spss into R and saved it as an object called
>> "kinderrechte".
>>
>> I have got the following command lines:
>>
>> q1 <- kinderrechte[,"q0007_0001"]
>> l1 <- q0007_0001_l
>>
>> now i would like to be able to change the column name in the first command
>> line (e.g. into q0007_0002) and to get R to automatically change
>> q0007_0001_l in the second command line into q0007_0002_l without using a
>> loop.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help!
>>
>> Marion
>>
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>
>
>
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> Jim Holtman
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