hello, I want to iterate through a list of names and use each element as an argument in a function. For instance:
> a = c('one','two','three') > data= c() > for(elem in a){data=cbind(elem = 2,data)} > data elem elem elem [1,] 2 2 2 instead I want 'elem' to be substituted by the string in the list. Doing it by hand would be: > data = cbind('one'=2,data) > data = cbind('two'=2,data) > data = cbind('three'=2,data) > data 'one' 'two' 'three' [1,] 2 2 2 I guess that the clue would be in sub(),gsub(), paste() or similar but I didnt get it to work. I am comming from python were we woudl do something like: > a = ['one','two','three'] > data = {} > for elem in a: > data[elem] = 2 > data {'three': 2, 'two': 2, 'one': 2} Thanks, Pedro - Prof. Dr. P. Martinez Arbizu DZMB-Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Suedstrand 44 D-26382 Wilhelmshaven Germany Tel: +49 (0)4421 9475-100 Fax: +49 (0)4421 9475-111 Email: pmarti...@senckenberg.de Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Rechtsfähiger Verein gemäß § 22 BGB Senckenberganlage 25 60325 Frankfurt Direktorium: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger, Prof. Dr. Michael Türkay, Dr. Johannes Heilmann, Prof. Dr. Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Prof. Dr. Georg Zizka, Prof. Dr. Uwe Fritz Vorsitzender des Präsidiums: Dietmar Schmid Aufsichtsbehörde: Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Ordnungsamt) ______________________________________________ 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.