Message-ID: <3ED8DEEB.5090808@ku.edu>
Date: 2003-05-31T16:57:15Z
From: Paul Johnson
Subject: parse on left hand side of R assignment
I keep finding myself in a situation where I want to calculate a
variable name and then use it on the left hand side of an assignment.
For example
iteration <- 1
varName <- paste("run",iteration,sep="")
myList$parse(text=varName) <- aColumn
I want to take some existing variable "aColumn" and use the name
"varName" name for it and put it into a list "myList". That use fails
with this error:
Error: couldn't find function "(<-"
I've tried many variations on the theme.
If I could do this with a data frame, I would be just as happy. Right
now I'm using a list rather than a data frame because not all columns
are of the same length. But I can work around that.
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Paul E. Johnson email: pauljohn at ukans.edu
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