Simpler (and easier to read and avoids a conversion of i to character and
back) is
for (i in 1:10) assign(paste("var", i, sep=""), i)
Neither of you needed the braces.
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pfaff, Bernhard wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to have variables whose name are var1, var2, ...
> > in a loop :
> >
> > for (i in 1:10)
> > {
> > var(i) <- i # where var(i) is var1, ....
> > }
>
> how about:
>
> for (i in 1:10){
> eval(parse(text=paste("var", i, "<-", i,
sep="")))
> }
>
> HTH,
> Bernhard
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Philippe
> >
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> >
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