[R] problem with assign and get

Peter Langfelder peter.langfelder at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 18:50:14 CET 2012


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Jannis <bt_jannis at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
>
> does anyone have an idea why the following construction does not work but
> gives the following error message:
>
> assign('test', array(1:10, dim=c(10,10)))
> dimnames(get('test')) <- list(1:10,1:10)
>
>
> Error in dimnames(get("test")) <- list(1:10, 1:10) :
>  target of assignment expands to non-language object
>
>
> What could be a way to get this to work?

dimnames(test) <- list(1:10,1:10)

Peter



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