Read the FAQ 7.21: http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-turn-a-string-into-a-variable_003f
Note that it points out that you don't really want to do this anyways. On 3/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I am pretty new to R but saw stata and sas's macro facilities and am looking > for > how such things work in R. > > I am trying to piece together a series of statements: > > > n = 5 #want to have it dynamic with respect to n > for (j in 1:n) { > eval(paste("x", j, "=x[", j, "]", sep="")) > } > > I want the created statements 'x1=x[1]' immediately executed and tried to do > that with eval() but that did not work. > > Any hints greatly appreciates. > > Thanks Toby > > ______________________________________________ > 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.