You need to swap the get and paste commands -
paste() creates the string filename that get() acts on.
As already explained, using a list is much nicer.
Sarah
2011/1/4 André Dias :
> Hi
>
> I was doing
>
> for (i in 1:length(database))
> assign(paste("distancematrix",i,sep=""), dist(paste(get("da
Hi
I was doing
for (i in 1:length(database))
assign(paste("distancematrix",i,sep=""), dist(paste(get("database", i,
sep="")
but i really did not know what I was doing. I will try your way. But I still
don't understnad how the get function works.
What woud be more r-ish then get() ?
thanks
p-boun...@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of André Dias
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:55 AM
> To: Sarah Goslee
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Help with "For" instruction
>
> hi
>
> how do I exactly use the get(). I am reading the help for get
2011/1/4 André Dias :
> hi
>
> how do I exactly use the get(). I am reading the help for get() but the way
> I am using it causes an error/
>
So how are you using it? It's so much easier to explain what you're doing
wrong if I know what you're doing.
Without a reproducible example I can't show yo
hi
how do I exactly use the get(). I am reading the help for get() but the way
I am using it causes an error/
thanks
ADias
2011/1/4 Sarah Goslee
> With get().
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:58 AM, ADias wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Still with the above problem:
> >
> > But for instance, i have a
Hi,
Still with the above problem:
But for instance, i have a data base with 30 variables and I created an
object each with one varibale missing:
DataBase - has 30 variables
DataBase1 has 29 variables with the 1st variable gone
DataBase2 has 29 variables with the 2nd variable gone
for(i in 1:le
Hi
thank you all. I think I have what I need to solve my problem.
Regards,
A.Dias
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On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:00 AM, ADias wrote:
Hi,
I am having a problem in doing something similar to this example:
Suppose I have this vector a, and from it I wish to create 5 other
vector
each one with less one value than what object a has
So I have "a"
a<-c(1,2,3,4,5)
and I want
a1 that
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> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Help with "For" instruction
>
>
> Hi,
>
&g
Hi,
I am having a problem in doing something similar to this example:
Suppose I have this vector a, and from it I wish to create 5 other vector
each one with less one value than what object a has
So I have "a"
a<-c(1,2,3,4,5)
and I want
a1 that shoud have (2,3,4,5)
a2 that should have (1,3,4,
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