how about assign( 'a', { z <- get('a'); z[1] <- 0; z } )
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fernando Saldanha Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:22 PM To: Submissions to R help Subject: [R] assign to an element of a vector I am trying to find a way to assign values to elements of a vector that will be defined by a user. So I don't have the name of the vector and cannot hard code the assignment in advance. In the example below I have to get() the vector using its name. When I try to assign to an element I get an error: > a <- c(1,2,3) > get('a')[1] <- 0 Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language object Any suggestions? FS ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html