[R] Help with "For" instruction

André Dias
2011-01-04T17:55:26Z

hi

how do I exactly use the get(). I am reading the help for get() but the way
I am using it causes an error/

thanks
ADias

2011/1/4 Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee@gmail.com>

> With get().
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:58 AM, ADias <diasandre@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Still with the above problem:
> >
> > But for instance, i have a data base with 30 variables and I created
an
> > object each with one varibale missing:
> >
> > DataBase - has 30 variables
> > DataBase1 has 29 variables with the 1st variable gone
> > DataBase2 has 29 variables with the 2nd variable gone
> >
> > for(i in 1:length(database))
> assign(paste("database",i,sep=""),database[-i])
> >
> >
> > Now, I wish to create the 30 distance matrix:
> >
> > for (i in 1:length(database))
> > assign(paste("distancematrix",i,sep=""),
> > dist(database[i]))
> >
> > But doing like this - database[i] - I am just refering to the 1st
value
> on
> > the object database and not to the entire database i.
> >
> > How do I do this?
> >
> > thanks
> > Regards,
> > A.Dias
> > --
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>

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