[R] Defining multiple variables in a loop

[Berend Hasselman]

Taylor White wrote
> 
> Good day,
> 
> For lack of a better solution (or perhaps I am ignorant to something
> more elegant), I have been bootstrapping panel data by hand so to
> speak and I would like to know if there is a way to define multiple
> variables in a loop using the loop variable.  I found a post (here:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-October/026305.html ) that
> discussed naming multiple variables but it didn't seem to allow me to
> define the variables as something more useful.  I tried the code
> immediately below (plus some variations) and it just didn't work.
> 
> for (i in 1:20) {
> assign(paste("country.", i, sep = "") <- subset(OECDFiscal2, Country == i)
> }
> 

Leaving aside the question whether this is a good way of doing what you
want, this is the wrong syntax.
?assign will show you the correct syntax.

assign(paste("country.", i, sep = "") , subset(OECDFiscal2, Country == i))

Berend

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