[R] Converting a character string into an object variable

[Benilton Carvalho]

assign(paste("V", i, sep=""), input.value[i])

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On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Brant Inman wrote:

> R-helpers:
>
> Assume that I want to create a series of sequentially named R  
> objects.  For
> example, I might want to call these objects V1, V2, V3 ... V50.  To  
> do this,
> I thought of some sort of looping function like:
>
> input.value <- seq(1:50) * 3
> for(i in 1:50){
>   paste("V", i, sep="") <- input.value[i]
> }
>
>
> Of course this loop will not work since the paste function returns a
> character string that cannot be a variable.  How can I construct a  
> loop to
> create sequential variables and assign a value to them in the same  
> spirit of
> the loop above?
>
> Brant Inman
> Mayo Clinic
>
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