How to use a text in an object of class character position to create a vector with the text as name

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:

In general, you use assign() to do that, but having object names
containing spaces should be avoided.

mytext <- "Experiment name : CONTROL DB AD_1"
mytext

[1] "Experiment name : CONTROL DB AD_1"

mytext <- sub("Experiment name : ", "", mytext)
mytext

[1] "CONTROL DB AD_1"

assign(mytext, 1:10)
ls()

[1] "CONTROL DB AD_1" "mytext"

"CONTROL DB AD_1"

[1] "CONTROL DB AD_1"

CONTROL DB AD_1

Error: unexpected symbol in "CONTROL DB"

Since you can't access your object by typing its name at the R prompt,
either with or without quotes, you've kind of got a problem. You could
use get(), but at that point why not just name your object something
that follows the R naming conventions?

I know Sarah knows this, but just for archive completeness: backticks.

`cat or dog` <- 3

cat or dog # Error

`cat or dog` # 3

Of course, this allows such insanity as

`4` <- 15

which is somewhat peculiar.

I still second the advice to use legal R names and uses underscores
where spaces might be desired.

mytext <- gsub(" ", "_", mytext)
mytext

raw_data <- 3

etc.

Best,
Michael

Sarah

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:08 AM, benji <benlucas at illinois.edu> wrote:

Hello,

titletool<-read.csv("TotalCSVData.csv",header=FALSE,sep=",")

class(titletool)

[1] "data.frame"

titletool[1,1]

[1] Experiment name : CONTROL DB AD_1

t<-titletootl[1,1]

t

[1] Experiment name : CONTROL DB AD_1

class(t)

[1] "character"

now i want to create an object (vector) with the name "Experiment name :
CONTROL DB AD_1" , or even better if possible CONTROL DB AD_1

Thank you