I had to do the same thing many times, i usually use a combination of the functions "eval", "parse" and "sprinf", as below:
k <- 1 for (i in 1:length(stats$hour)) { eval(parse(text=sprintf("x%s <- dataset[%s,(3:15)]", i, k))) k <- k+1 } what it does is: eval(parse(text=STRING)) is a way to execute what is written on STRING and sprintf("TEXT%sTEXT", VARIABLE) substitutes the %s part of the text in the first argument for whatever is on the second argument (you can extend this to many %s parts) Note: i've changed the "=" for the "<-" because someone told me that it was more correct (don't ask me why though!). JM El Martes, 20 de Mayo de 2008 13:58, Douglas M. Hultstrand escribió: > Hello, > > I am trying to assign a variable name (x1,x2,x3...) in a loop statement > that is based on a counter (counter is based on the number of hours > within the datafile). The x1,x2 data will later be called for plotting > the data. Below is a clip of the for loop I am using, any suggestions? > > k = 1 > for (i in 1:length(stats$hour)) { > "x(i)" = dataset[k,(3:15)] > k = k+1 > } > > Thanks, > Doug ______________________________________________ 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.