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...annot find a straightforward answer. I want to be able to pass the contents of that list to a "for" loop. So let us assume that one has a dataframe whose name is Data. And let us assume one had the height of a group of people measured at various ages. It could be made up of vectors Data$PersonalID, Data$FirstName, Data$LastName, Data$Height.1, Data$Height.5, Data$Height.9, Data$Height.10,Data$Height.12,Data$Height.20....many many more variables. How would one create a vector of all the Height variable names. The simple workaround is to not bother creating the vector "Data$Height.1&quo...

I would like to read the following hierarchical data set. There is a family record followed by one or more personal records. If col. 7 is "1" it is a family record. If it is "2" it is a personal record. The family record is formatted as follows: col. 1-5 family id col. 7 "1" col. 9 dwelling type code The personal record is formatted as follows: col.