Take a look at ?assign

Juan Manuel Barreneche wrote:
I had to do the same thing many times, i usually use a combination of the functions "eval", "parse" and "sprinf", as below:

k <- 1
for (i in 1:length(stats$hour)) {
   eval(parse(text=sprintf("x%s <- dataset[%s,(3:15)]", i, k)))
   k <- k+1
}

what it does is:
eval(parse(text=STRING)) is a way to execute what is written on STRING
and sprintf("TEXT%sTEXT", VARIABLE) substitutes the %s part of the text in the first argument for whatever is on the second argument (you can extend this to many %s parts)

Note: i've changed the "=" for the "<-" because someone told me that it was more correct (don't ask me why though!).
JM

El Martes, 20 de Mayo de 2008 13:58, Douglas M. Hultstrand escribió:
Hello,

I am trying to assign a variable name (x1,x2,x3...) in a loop statement
that is based on a counter (counter is based on the number of hours
within the datafile).  The x1,x2 data will later be called for plotting
the data.  Below is a clip of the for loop I am using, any suggestions?

k = 1
for (i in 1:length(stats$hour)) {
  "x(i)" = dataset[k,(3:15)]
  k = k+1
 }

Thanks,
Doug

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