Message-ID: <41AA0938.5010905@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2004-11-28T17:22:00Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: creating a sequence of object names
In-Reply-To: <20041128170651.71853.qmail@web26309.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
John wrote:
> Hello R-users,
>
> I wanted to generate objects named 'my.ftn1',
> 'my.ftn2', ... , 'my.ftn10', and tried the following
> code without success. How can I do this?
>
>
>>for ( i in 1:10 ) {
>
> + sub(" ", "", paste("my.ftn", i)) <- NULL
> + }
> Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language
> object
>
>
> Many thanks.
>
> John
>
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Please do as suggested above, read the posting guide!
It suggests to read the FAQs. FAQ 7.21 is what you are looking for: "How
can I turn a string into a variable?".
Uwe Ligges