save an object by dynamicly created name

path <- "data";
dir.create(path);

for (i in 1:10) {
 m <- i:5;
 filename <- sprintf("m%02d.Rbin", i);
 pathname <- file.path(path, filename);
 save(m, file=pathname);
}

That would result in each of the ten files containing an object with  
the same  name == "m". (Also on my system R data files have type  
Rdta.) So I thought what was requested might have been a slight mod:

path <- "~/";
dir.create(path);

for (i in 1:10) {
  assign( paste("m", i, sep=""),  i:5)
  filename <- sprintf("m%02d.Rdta", i)
  pathname <- file.path(path, filename)
  obj =get(paste("m", i, sep=""))
  save(obj, file=pathname)
}
David.

> /H
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:53 PM, jeffc <hcen at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to save a few dynamically created objects to disk. The
>> following is the basic flow of the code segment
>>
>> for(i = 1:10) {
>>   m = i:5
>>   save(m, file = ...) ## ???
>> }
>> To distinguish different objects to be saved, I would like to save  
>> m as m1,
>> m2, m3 ..., to file /home/data/m1, /home/data/m2, home/data/m3, ...
>>
>> I tried a couple of methods on translating between object names and  
>> strings
>> (below) but couldn't get it to work.
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-November/178965.html
>> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/08/2673.html
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Hao
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT

save an object by dynamicly created name

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