Hey everyone, I have again a loop question: After generating the dataset using Jan’s approach from my previous posting (http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Loop-over-several-variables-td4648112.html) I want to rename the Variables in the new dataset so that all y will be called tiy. Doing it separately the following line works fine:
ti<-rename (ti,c(y5="tiy5")) So I thought I simply extend to the following and the loop will be fine: ti<-rename (ti,c([paste0("y", 1:5)] = [paste0("tiy", 1:5)])) However, this will give me the following error message: Error: unexpected '[' in "ti<-rename (ti,c([" Removing the “[“ I then used the following line ti<-rename (ti,c(paste0("y", 1:5) = paste0("tiy", 1:5))) This provoked the following error: Error: unexpected '=' in "ti<-rename (ti,c(paste0("y", 1:5) =" I did some playing around with the brackets but I could not stop R from sending an error about the equal sign. Anybody any Idea where my mistake might be? Thanks in advance Bernhard -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Loop-over-several-Variables-add-on-question-tp4648216.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.