Hi Michael. This is a classic :-) ObjectsOfInterest<- list(one_df, two_df, three_df) for(namedf in ObjectsOfInterest){...}
or probably even better sapply(ObjectsOfInterest, function(namedf){...}) hth. Nick Sabbe -- ping: nick.sa...@ugent.be link: http://biomath.ugent.be wink: A1.056, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent ring: 09/264.59.36 -- Do Not Disapprove -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Bach Sent: vrijdag 29 april 2011 12:03 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Reference variables by string in for loop Dear R Users, I am trying to get the following to work better: namevec <- c("one", "two", "three") for (name in namevec) { namedf <- eval(parse(text=paste(name, "_df", sep=""))) ... ... } The rationale behind it being that I created variables with names one_df, two_df and three_df earlier in the same script which I want to reference inside the for loop. Is there a more elegant way to do this? Best Regards, Michael Bach ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.