"Edmond Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear all,
>
> I need to read in 4 sets of tab delimited data in a loop. The 4 data sets are
> called "simu1.dat", "simu2.dat" and so on. I know what I need on the righthand side
> of the read.table expression but I can't the left hand side of it to work (see the
> line in bold below). Can you kindly help? Many thanks.
>
> simu1 <- matrix(0,30,3)
> simu2 <- matrix(0,30,3)
> simu3 <- matrix(0,30,3)
> simu4 <- matrix(0,30,3)
>
> for (i in 1:4) {
> simu[i] <- read.table( paste("simu",i,".dat",sep="") )
> }
Use paste to generate the name and assign to do the assignment
for (i in 1:4) {
assign(paste('simu', i), read.table( paste("simu",i,".dat",sep="")))
}
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