Thank you, Uwe. I've found a way to do the job by reading the FAQ 7.21 although it is not giving a precise explanation to a novice or casual user at first reading. For example, if you type the first two
But the corresponding help files do so, for sure, and the FAQ 7.21 points you to ?assign and ?get.
lines in the FAQ, you get an error as you do not have the variable, a, initially.
I am sure that more and more people get interested in and serious about using R if advanced users are kind enough to answer simple and silly questions as well which are already explained in basic documentations. Or is this community for highly motivated and advanced R users only?
No, of course it is for novices as well!
BUT we do expect that novices do read basic documentation such as "An Introduction to R" and the R FAQ before asking question.
If there are too many silly questions from thousands of R users, nobody is able to manage the questions any more. And note that those people answering questions do it on a voluntary basis, and (at least partially) in their spare time!
Nobody would be subscribed to R-help any more, if there are 1000 mails a day, 900 of them containing silly questions! It is yet already hard enough to get through the huge amount of messages in a reasonable amount of time!
I have answered your question in a way,
1) so that it is up to you to read some documentation. Now you have seen the FAQs and some help files. And you have learned much more than you would have learned if I had said "Use assign()"
2) so that nobody feels too encouraged to ask questions before reading basic documentation - and my answer still saved you a lot of time!
Uwe Ligges
Regards,
John
--- Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
John wrote:
Hello R-users,
I wanted to generate objects named 'my.ftn1', 'my.ftn2', ... , 'my.ftn10', and tried the
following
code without success. How can I do this?
for ( i in 1:10 ) {
+ sub(" ", "", paste("my.ftn", i)) <- NULL + } Error: Target of assignment expands to
non-language
object
Many thanks.
John
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Please do as suggested above, read the posting
guide!
It suggests to read the FAQs. FAQ 7.21 is what you
are looking for: "How can I turn a string into a variable?".
Uwe Ligges
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