Roger -- First, if you have the data frames in a list already, you can just use those; no need to bother with the names. If the data frames are all separate, but you have the names, you can first create a list of the data frames themselves:
do.call("rbind", lapply(mlist, get)) # assumes they're in the workspace An example: > temp1 <- matrix(runif(10), 5, 2) > temp2 <- matrix(-runif(10), 5, 2) (for easy identifiability) > temp3 <- do.call("rbind", lapply(c("temp1", "temp2"), get)) > temp3 <- do.call("rbind", list(temp1, temp2)) (same as above) Hope this helps, Matt Wiener -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roger bos Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:07 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] how to use do.call("rbind", get(list(mlist))) I have around 200 data frames I want to rbind in a vectorized way. The object names are: m302 m303 ... m500 So I tried: mlist <- paste("m",302:500,sep="") dat <- do.call("rbind", get(list(mlist))) and I get "Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : invalid first argument" I know "rbind" is valid because dat <- rbind(m302, m303, m304, m305) works, I am just too lazy to type it out to m500. I also tried it without the get() portion, but then dat ends up being a column with just the names of the objects, not the objects themselves. Thanks in advance for showing me the errors in my attempts. Roger ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html