Its a FAQ. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-turn-a-string-into-a-variable_003f
On 2/25/07, Monika Kerekes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear members, > > > > I have started to work with R recently and there is one thing which I could > not solve so far. I don't know how to define macros in R. The problem at > hand is the following: I want R to go through a list of 1:54 and create the > matrices input1, input2, input3 up to input54. I have tried the following: > > > > for ( i in 1:54) { > > input[i] = matrix(nrow = 1, ncol = 107) > > input[i][1,]=datset$variable > > } > > > > However, R never creates the required matrices. I have also tried to type > input'i' and input$i, none of which worked. I would be very grateful for > help as this is a basic question the answer of which is paramount to any > further usage of the software. > > > > Thank you very much > > > > Monika > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.