R help - Apr 2011 - Paste problem when looping variable assignments

Hi all,

I am attempting to run through a large set of data and sort events by the
water year (1 Oct - 30 Sep) in which they occurred.  

I have no problem doing this for each individual site I am looking at (so my
problem is not with most of the code, just one minor thing), but when I try
to loop it to do the same things for each site, I run into problems.

I think the root of my problem is that I am trying to switch the name of a
variable for each iteration of the loop.  I am using a paste function on the
left side of a "<-" statement, which R doesn't seem to like.  I
am trying to
create a variable for each site I am looking at (with the format
"sitename_pdswy") that contains how many events occurred in a given
year,
which I want to use in further calculations.  I keep getting the following
error message:

Error in paste(pds_gagehandles[[i]], "_pdswy", sep = "")
<- POTWY_cut :
  could not find function "paste<-"

Does anyone know how I might be able to do this?  It seems like the type of
thing that must have a simple solution that I am just overlooking..

I have posted my entire code below, with the problematic line bolded and
italicized.

Thank you very much for your help.

Billy

full code:

for(i in 1:length(pds_gagehandles)){
dates<-get(paste(pds_gagehandles[i],"_pds_rawd",sep=""))
q<-get(paste(pds_gagehandles[i],"_pds_rawq",sep=""))

yr<-as.numeric(strftime(dates,format='%Y'))
mo<-as.numeric(strftime(dates,format='%m'))
len<-length(yr)

	for(n in 1:len){
		WY[n]<-if(mo[n]>=10){
			yr[n]+1
		}else{
			yr[n]}
}

partialpeakind<-which(round(q,2)>=round(pds_TD[i],2))
partialpeaksd<-dates[partialpeakind]
partialpeaksq<-q[partialpeakind]
partialpeaksWY<-WY[partialpeakind]

	for(q in 1:length(partialpeaksWY)){
	wyrs<-seq(min(partialpeaksWY),max(partialpeaksWY),by=1)
	POTWY[[q]]<-sum(partialpeaksWY == wyrs[q])
	POTWY_cut<-as.numeric(na.omit(POTWY))
	paste(pds_gagehandles[[i]],"_pdswy",sep="")<-POTWY_cut}

pds_dropdates<-data.frame(partialpeaksWY,partialpeaksd,partialpeaksq)

write.table(pds_dropdates,file=paste(pds_gagehandles[i],"_dropdates.txt",sep=""))
write.table(data.frame(wyrs,POTWY_cut),file=paste(pds_gagehandles[i],"_POTWY.txt",sep=""))
}

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One thing I should have mentioned before is that "pds_gagehandles" is
a
character vector that contains the site names that I am interested in.  An
example of a site name is "saho".

So with with the paste function, I am trying to get R to assign a variable
with the site name followed by "_potwy".  For example, I am trying to
create
a vector of events/year named "saho_potwy".

Thanks again.

Billy

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