Hello List I am trying to create and assign variable names in loop, but not able to get expected variable names.
Here is the sample code n = 10 set.seed(1) x1 = rnorm(n,0) x2 = rnorm(n,0) samp_data <- data.frame(x1,x2) for( i in 1:3) { label <- paste("score", i, sep="_") assign(label, value =x1+(x2*i) ) samp_data <- cbind(samp_data, get(label)) } > head(samp_data) x1 x2 get(label) get(label) get(label) 1 -0.6264538 1.51178117 0.8853274 2.3971085 3.9088897 2 0.1836433 0.38984324 0.5734866 0.9633298 1.3531730 3 -0.8356286 -0.62124058 -1.4568692 -2.0781098 -2.6993504 4 1.5952808 -2.21469989 -0.6194191 -2.8341190 -5.0488189 5 0.3295078 1.12493092 1.4544387 2.5793696 3.7043005 6 -0.8204684 -0.04493361 -0.8654020 -0.9103356 -0.9552692 I am expecting new variables to be created in the samp_data are score_1 score_2 score_3, instead get(label) get(label) get(label) Where am I going wrong? Thanks in advance ~Ajit -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Creating-and-assigning-variable-names-in-loop-tp4221080p4221080.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.