In short, don't -- use a named list instead.
Long answer:
?assign
?get
Michael
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:40 PM, michaelyb <cel81009...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use a for loop to name objects in each iteraction. As in the
> following example (which doesn't work quite well)
>
> my_list<-c("A","B","C","D","E","F")
> for(i in c(1:length(my_list))){
> url<- "http://finance.yahoo.com";
> doc = htmlTreeParse(url, useInternalNodes = T)
> tab_nodes = xpathApply(doc, "//table[@cellpadding = '3']")
> *my_list[i]*=lapply(tab_nodes, readHTMLTable) #problem is in this line
> names(*my_list[i]*)=c("Ins","outs")
> }
>
> The problem is that in iteraction #1, I need the info to be stored at an
> object called "A"; At iteraction #2 at object called "B"... and so on....
>
> Any idea/help?
>
> thank you in advance!
>
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