So you *can* do it. There is a question remaining of whether you *should* do it. More R-ish is to use a list.
On 04/08/2010 01:39, jim holtman wrote:
?paste ?assign On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Hey Sky<heyskywal...@yahoo.com> wrote:hey, Rers in Stata therer is a loop command ` ' which could do the following: forvalue i=1/10 { gen x`i'=expression } this will generate variable: x1,x2,,,,,x10. so, does R have a corresponding one to this? And one more very basic question: after I open a file and modify it, such as generate some new variables and change some old ones, how to use the changed dataset in analysis, except the method save and reload it? I have tried but did not get the right thing done: mydata<-read(flie=".....") ........ detach() attach(names of my data set) any answer are appreciated. Nan from Montreal ______________________________________________ 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.
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