Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > > ...<snip>... > That's because constructing names like this is generally a bad idea. > But you can do it; you use get() to get the object whose name is in > temp.name. So put data=get(temp.name) into your lm() call. >
I had another useful answer (sent privately) from Patrick Burns. His "R inferno" seems like a helpful source of information. Here's a quote from page 12 that has been very helpful in simplifying my code and making it more comprehensible. The key seems to be to index a list by character strings. Patrick Burns wrote: > > A fairly common question from new users is: “How do I assign names to a > group of similar objects?” Yes, you can do that, but you probably don’t > want > to—better is to vectorize your thinking. Put all of the similar objects > into one > list. Subsequent analysis and manipulation is then going to be much > smoother. > Thanks to both. David -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/puzzles-with-assign-tp2130691p2130887.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
