[R] Printing a variable in a loop

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Hello,

  Can't you just use vectors? Untested example:

  var[1] <- 10
  var[2] <- 20
  y <- 1
  while(y < 3) {
    print(var[y])
    y <- y+1
  }

     Take care
     Oliver

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:22 PM, kat_the_great <knv4 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R Users:
>
> I'm a STATA user converting to R, and I'd like to be to do the following.
> #Assign var_1 and var_2 a value
> 10->var1
> 20->var2
>
> #Now I'd like to print the values of var_1 and var_2 by looping through
> var_1 and var_2 in such a manner:
>
> while(y<3){
>  print(var_y)
> y+1->y
> }
>
> In STATA, the "y" appended to " var_" is called the local variable and the
> code would look like this:
>
> while y<3 (
> display var`y'
> y=y+1
> )
>
> Stata would understand that `y' is first 1 and then 2, and print out the
> values assigned to var_1 and var_2. Is there a way to do this in R? How
> would R users fram this questions even? What terminology would you use?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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