you need get(), look also at FAQ 7.21 a1 <- 1:3 a2 <- 4:5 a3 <- 6:10 a4 <- 11:20 a5 <- 21:25 ##################### lapply(paste("a", 1:5, sep = ""), get)
I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Lundqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:07 PM Subject: [R] Automate concatenation? >I have this typical problem of joining a number of vectors with >similar > names - a1, a2,..., a10 - which should be concatenated into one. > Using > c(a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a,a8,a9,a10) naturally works, but I would like > to do > it with less manual input. My attempts to use paste() gives a vector > of > the vector names, see below. The question is how to do the the > concatenation? Any suggestions? > > paste("a",1:10,sep="") > > Robert > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ______________________________________________ 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