hi how do I exactly use the get(). I am reading the help for get() but the way I am using it causes an error/
thanks ADias 2011/1/4 Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> > With get(). > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:58 AM, ADias <diasan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Still with the above problem: > > > > But for instance, i have a data base with 30 variables and I created an > > object each with one varibale missing: > > > > DataBase - has 30 variables > > DataBase1 has 29 variables with the 1st variable gone > > DataBase2 has 29 variables with the 2nd variable gone > > > > for(i in 1:length(database)) > assign(paste("database",i,sep=""),database[-i]) > > > > > > Now, I wish to create the 30 distance matrix: > > > > for (i in 1:length(database)) > > assign(paste("distancematrix",i,sep=""), > > dist(database[i])) > > > > But doing like this - database[i] - I am just refering to the 1st value > on > > the object database and not to the entire database i. > > > > How do I do this? > > > > thanks > > Regards, > > A.Dias > > -- > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.functionaldiversity.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.