R help - Apr 2011 - convert string to variable

Hello,

Is it possible to convert a string to a variable?

I have a set of names:
> stocks
 [1] "ACCELL" "AHOLD"       "AJAX"           
"ARCADIS"      "BALLAST"
"BAM.GROEP"
 [7] "BESI"            "BETER.BED"      
"BINCKBANK.NV"    "BOSKALIS"
 "CATE"  "CROWN.V.GELDER"

And a data frame with stockquotes.

With a for-loop I want to create variables (ACCEL, AHOLD ....)  with quotes
from the data frame 'data':

for (i in stocks){
k=1; m=2
m=10
??i <- data[,k:m]
k=k+2; m=10+2
}

How can I do this?

Thanks for the answer.
André

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On 22.04.2011 22:27, Andr? de Boer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to convert a string to a variable?
>
> I have a set of names:
>
>> stocks
>   [1] "ACCELL" "AHOLD"       "AJAX"          
"ARCADIS"      "BALLAST"
> "BAM.GROEP"
>   [7] "BESI"            "BETER.BED"      
"BINCKBANK.NV"    "BOSKALIS"
>   "CATE"  "CROWN.V.GELDER"
>
> And a data frame with stockquotes.
>
> With a for-loop I want to create variables (ACCEL, AHOLD ....)  with quotes
> from the data frame 'data':
>
> for (i in stocks){
> k=1; m=2
> m=10
> ??i<- data[,k:m]
> k=k+2; m=10+2
> }
>
> How can I do this?
>
> Thanks for the answer.
> Andr?
>
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>
>
>
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