The function you are looking for is ?assign. assign(paste(pds_gagehandles[[i]], "_pdswy", sep = ""), ...)
For the reverse, in case you are interested, check out ?get. HTH, Jon On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:49 PM, armstrwa <william.armstr...@noaa.gov> wrote: > One thing I should have mentioned before is that "pds_gagehandles" is a > character vector that contains the site names that I am interested in. An > example of a site name is "saho". > > So with with the paste function, I am trying to get R to assign a variable > with the site name followed by "_potwy". For example, I am trying to create > a vector of events/year named "saho_potwy". > > Thanks again. > > Billy > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Paste-problem-when-looping-variable-assignments-tp3468414p3468429.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- =============================================== Jon Daily Technician =============================================== #!/usr/bin/env outside # It's great, trust me. ______________________________________________ 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.
