arun
2014-Apr-07 10:59 UTC
[R] How to use an elements' name when creating a data frame via a for loop
Hi, May be this helps: stations <- LETTERS[1:4] set.seed(42) PM2.5 <- data.frame(DateTime=seq(as.POSIXct("2010-01-10 01:00:00"),length.out=10,by= "1 day"), station= sample(LETTERS[1:4],10,replace=TRUE)) for(i in 1:length(stations)) assign(paste(stations[i],"PM",sep="_"),subset(PM2.5,station==stations[i])) A_PM # DateTime station #8 2010-01-17 01:00:00 A D_PM # DateTime station #1 2010-01-10 01:00:00 D #2 2010-01-11 01:00:00 D #4 2010-01-13 01:00:00 D A.K. Hey, I got a question that bugs me for a longer time now. I want to create several data.frames via a for loop that is applied to the elements of a vector. And I want to use the names of the elements in the name of the created data.frames. Is that possible? Im confused with the coding there ... Should look something like this: for (i in 1:length(stations)) {stations[i]_PM <- data.frame(PM2.5$DateTime,PM2.5$stations[i])} The result should be several dataframes (length of stations) with the name StationID_PM. Should I use the paste function?? Thank you very much. Hopefuly, I explained myself well enough. Dolby