Tobias Muhlhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to define a large number of variables through a loop construct. He wants to do for (i in 1:100) { assign(paste("v", i, sep=""), ....something or other...) }
This is, of course, a FAQ. It's such a FAQ that I must have seen it once a day for the last several days.
What I want to know is *WHY* people are doing this? What, precisely, does it buy you to have variables called v1...v100 rather than variables called v[[1]]...v[[100]]? Apart from persistent inconvenience, that is?
I believe it is an SPSSism. It has been many, many years since I last used SPSS but I vaguely recall a facility for specifying ranges of columns in the form x1-x99.
Duncan Temple Lang's sig file used to have a quote something like "Language shapes the way we think" and that applies here.
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