Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
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?
Bad habits from less expressive languages?
Kjetil
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?
What, really, is wrong with
v <- lapply(1:100, function (i) ....something or other...)
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