Patrick -
   There's no simple way to do what you want, because
R discourages you from having lots of separate
related objects.  Instead, you are encouraged to store
your objects in an organized form, such as a list, data frame or matrix. For your example, I'm assuming you are using the word "table" to describe a data.frame. If this is the case , you can refer to the individual
columns of test as

test[,1]
test[,2]
  etc.

or

test$x1
test$x2
  etc.

or

test[,'x1']
test[,'x2']

Also remember that R has functions that can operate on
each row or column of a matrix or data frame. So if you wanted the means of each column of test, you could write

    apply(test,2,mean)
                                       - Phil Spector
                                         Statistical Computing Facility
                                         Department of Statistics
                                         UC Berkeley
                                         spec...@stat.berkeley.edu


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Richardson, Patrick wrote:

If I have a table (we'll call it, "test") containing two columns (as below):

i       x1      x2      x3      x4      x5      y
0       1.125   0.232   7.160   0.0859 8.905 1.5563
7       0.920   0.268   8.804   0.0865 7.388 0.8976
15      0.835   0.271   8.108   0.0852 5.348 0.7482
22      1.000   0.237   6.370   0.0838 8.056 0.7160
29      1.150   0.192   6.441   0.0821 6.960 0.3130
37      0.990   0.202   5.154   0.0792 5.690 0.3617
44      0.840   0.184   5.896   0.0812 6.932 0.1139
58      0.650   0.200   5.336   0.0806 5.400 0.1139


Is there a simple command to break this table into individual variables without 
having to code:

i <- test$i
x1 <- test$x1
x2 <- test$x2
.
.
.
And so on. .

Many Thank for any assistance.

Patrick
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