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name of object from character vector

2 messages · Gasper Cankar, Dimitris Rizopoulos

Gasper Cankar
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Hello everyone!

A simple question (I'm not sure about the answer):

How can I give a name to my data.frame from a character vector of names? 
For example, each data.frame is a table of results for a subject and I have a vector of subject names like

b <- c("math", "geography", "history")

How do I create a data.frame named "math" by calling b[1]? 

I'm importing data via RODBC in one big loop for all subjects and
I want them separated so I'll be able to load them one at a time later on. 

Thanks for your help,

Gasper


Gasper Cankar
National Examinations Centre
Slovenia
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Dimitris Rizopoulos
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look at "?assign", e.g.,


b <- c("math", "geography", "history")
assign(b[1], data.frame(x=rnorm(5), y=rnorm(5)))
math


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Biostatistical Centre
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Catholic University of Leuven

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From: "Gasper Cankar" <gasper.cankar at ric.si>
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:00 AM
Subject: [R] name of object from character vector