[R] Ussing assign

Jim Lemon drjimlemon at gmail.com
Sat Aug 5 12:21:50 CEST 2017


Hi Jesus,
You probably want:

assign(paste0("model",i),lm(y~x,data=get(paste0("variable",i))))

Jim

On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Jesús Para Fernández
<j.para.fernandez at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
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> Imagine I want to use a variable created with assign,but automatically. I have an issue with that. What I do is:
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> #create in a loop the variables
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> for(i in 1:5){
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> assign(paste0("variable",i),data.frame(x=rnorm(100),y=rnorm(100))
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> }
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> Now, if I want to do create the five models, I do not know how to set this created data.frames
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> I have tried:
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> for (i in 1:5){
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> assign(paste0("model",i),lm(y~x,data=paste0("variable",i)))
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> }
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> but it does not working.
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> Error in eval(predvars, data, env) :
>   invalid 'envir' argument of type 'character'
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> Can you please help me to find the correct way?
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> Thanks!
> Jesús
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