> Yes, I know this works. I just give it for example to show what I > would like to achieve. In fact, I have many variables, you can > imagine it is very annoying to construct the data frame by mannually > assigning the variables and binding them. Therefore, I would like to > do it automaticlly. So it is back to my first two questions, In > order to achieve cbcname1 = 0.1, I tried sth like:(but it does not > return the result as desired) > paste("cbc","name1","=",0.1,sep=""), in this way, I can construct > all the variables by a single step.Then I would like to build the > data frame automaticlly binding all the "cbcname=.." together. Just > like the example.
Ok. How's this? #Generate variable names varnames = paste("cbcname", 1:10, sep="") #Assign them to values for(i in 1:10) assign(varnames[i], 0.1*i) #Form the middle bit of the command cmd = paste(varnames, "=", mget(varnames, envir=.GlobalEnv), collapse=",") #Evaluate the command eval(parse(text=paste("df=data.frame(", cmd, ")", sep=""))) There's a general rule that says if you have to use parse, you're probably doing it the wrong way, but it's been a long day, so that's the best way I can think of right now. Regards, Richie. Mathematical Sciences Unit HSL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ATTENTION: This message contains privileged and confidential inform...{{dropped:20}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.