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...n't know what your intended use is, but this looks like a difficult and inefficient way to keep track of things in R. You may want to look over some of the R introductions (on www.r-project.org) to see other ways to represent your data. For example, perhaps a two-way array C such that e.g. your C_05_04 is the 5,4 entry. R is good at handling arrays and more importantly, you won't have to deal with constructing strings and breaking them apart again, using "get" and "assign" to get and assign to objects with these names, etc. Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- Fro...