R help - Jan 2008 - how to use different variable to store values with different length in a loop

Hi, List

I am trying to use variables named A1, A2, ..., A100 to store some values,
each variable could store some values with different length, how can I
achieve this?

Thanks,

Jack

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I would recommend that you use a "list" instead of creating the
variables.  Here is how you might do a list:

# preallocate the list
myList <- vector('list', 100)
for (i in 1:100){
    .....you calculations.....
    myList[[i]] <- result
}

If you really want to create 100 variables, then use 'assign':

for (i in 1:100){
    .... your calculations....
    assign(paste("A", i, sep=""), result)
}

But a 'list' is much easier to handle especially in that all the
related data is in one object.


On Jan 18, 2008 10:28 PM, Jack Luo <jluo.rhelp at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, List
>
> I am trying to use variables named A1, A2, ..., A100 to store some values,
> each variable could store some values with different length, how can I
> achieve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack
>
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>
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