?get
something like:
> v1 <- c(0, 1, 0)
> v2 <- c(1, 1, 0)
> v3 <- c(2, 1, 2)
> v4 <- c(2, 2, 1)
> v5 <- c(0, 1, 1)
> x <- 5
> cbind(v1, v2, get(paste('v', x, sep='')))
v1 v2
[1,] 0 1 0
[2,] 1 1 1
[3,] 0 0 1
>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Lisa <lisa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your help. But here I just want to combine some vectors by
> column based on the numbers determined by other R script.
>
> For example, I have five vectors:
>
> v1 <- c(0, 1, 0)
> v2 <- c(1, 1, 0)
> v3 <- c(2, 1, 2)
> v4 <- c(2, 2, 1)
> v5 <- c(0, 1, 1)
>
> If I am going to combine the first two vectors, and one more other vector
> determined by my other R script, say, vector 5. Then my R script is
>
> x <- 5
> cbind(v1, v2, paste("v", x, sep = ""))
>
> The output is
>
> v1 v2
> [1,] "0" "1" "v5"
> [2,] "1" "1" "v5"
> [3,] "0" "0" "v5"
>
> This is not what I want. I want to get this:
>
> v1 v2 v5
> [1,] 0 1 0
> [2,] 1 1 1
> [3,] 0 0 1
>
> Can you give me further suggestions or comments? Thanks a lot.
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
> Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Lisa <lisa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you for your reply. But in the following case, cat() or
> print()
> >> doesnt work.
> >>
> >> data.frame(cbind(variable 1, variable 2, cat(paste("variable", x),
> >> "\n"))),
> >> where x is a random number generated by other R script.
> >>
> >> Lisa
> >
> > Yes, because you are Doing It Wrong. If you have data that is indexed
> > by an integer, don't store it in variables called variable1, variable2
> > etc, because very soon you will be posting a message to R-help that is
> > covered in the R FAQ...
> >
> > Store it in a list:
> >
> > v = list()
> > v[[1]] = c(1,2,3,4,5)
> > v[[2]] = c(4,5,6,7,8,9,9,9)
> >
> > then you can do v[[i]] for integer values of i.
> >
> > If you really really must get values of variable by name, perhaps
> > because someone has given you a data file with variables called
> > variable1 to variable99, then use the paste() construction together
> > with the 'get' function:
> >
> > [ not tested, but should work ]
> >
> > > v1="99"
> > > v2="102"
> > > i=2
> > > get(paste("v",i,sep=""))
> > [1] 102
> >
> > Barry
> >
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> >
> >
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