looping over a string
Greg Snow schrieb:
I don't see right off why the one works and the other doesn't, but this looks like one of those cases that would be better done using a list rather than global variables. Instead of assigning the variables in the global workspace, create a list and assign them there. Then you can use lapply instead of a loop and you avoid the potential pitfalls associated with globals. Hope this helps,
Greg, thanks for the answer. The difference is, that in the first case I assign a value to a "string", but afterwards I want to read the value of the "string". Trying to get it with lists. Cheers, Thomas