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Thanks, Petr. Your insight has helped me out a lot. Billy Petr Savicky-2 [via R] wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:28:32PM -0700, armstrwa wrote: > Hi all, > > Forgive me for this basic question. I've been doing some research and > haven't been able to figure out how to best do this yet. > > I have 75 variables defined as vector time series. I am trying to create a > script to automate calculations on each of these variables, but I wasn't > sure how to go about calling variables in a script. > > I am hoping to write a loop that calls a list of variable names and runs > several tests using each of the datasets I have entered. > > For example, say I have a defined 5 variables: var1, var2,...var5. How > could I create a script that would run, say, a MannKendall correlation test > on each variable? Hi. A typical way, how to perform a loop over several variables, is to keep the variables in a list. For example lst <- list(var1=2:5, var2=c(23, 56), var3=seq(0, 1, length=11)) lst $var1 [1] 2 3 4 5 $var2 [1] 23 56 $var3 [1] 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 for (i in seq.int(along=lst)) { print(mean(lst[[i]])) } [1] 3.5 [1] 39.5 [1] 0.5 It is also possible to loop over isolated variables. For example var1 <- 2:5 var2 <- c(23, 56) var3 <- seq(0, 1, length=11) for (varnam in c("var1", "var2", "var3")) { x <- get(varnam) print(mean(x)) } Hope this helps. Petr Savicky. ______________________________________________ [hidden email] 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. If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Basic-Looping-Trouble-tp3394860p3395690.html To unsubscribe from Basic Looping Trouble, click here . -- William Armstrong Hydrology Research Assistant NOAA Restoration Center 55 Great Republic Drive Gloucester, MA 01930 email: william.armstr...@noaa.gov ph: 978-675-2181 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Basic-Looping-Trouble-tp3394860p3397087.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.