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Hi all, Hope someone can help me. I start out with a matrix called haplo with 600 rows and two columns. To start with, the elements of the matrix are character strings of 20 numbers. I then want to create separate objects, called ha1-ha600, that are the concatenated 20 + 20 numbers, as numeric. I am having no trouble doing anything except getting the index i to paste to the object ha(i) in some fashion. When I do substring(haplo[(i)...) it works fine, but I can't seem to create objects that are ha1 or ha2 etc., containing the 4...