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I would like to merge two parts of words to get a name of the data. First M3$N (invariable) and second is a number from 0001 to 3003 - M3$N0001,M3$N0002,...,M3$N3003. For example if I do it like this: my.data <- paste("M3$N",2456,sep="") I get > my.data [1] "M3$N2456" But I want to get something equivalent to my.data<- M3$N2456 Is there any way to do it? It's important, because the second part are randomly chosen. (T...