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 <diasan...@gmail.com>:
> 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
> ADias
>
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