On Oct 13, 2014 11:58 PM, "Patricia Seo" <p...@stanford.edu> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > My help request is similar to what was asked by Ken Termiso on April 18th, 2005. Link here: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-April/069729.html > > Matt Wiener answered with suggesting a vector list where you hand type each of the vectors. This is not what I want to do. What I want to do is automate the process. So, in other words creating a list through a loop. > > For example: > > My data frame is called "df" and I have four variables/vectors that are v7, v8, v9, 10. Each variable/vector is an integer (no character strings). I want to create a list called "Indexes" so that I can use this list for "for-in" loops to SEPARATELY plot each and every variable/vector. > > If I followed Matt Wiener's suggestion, I would input this: > > > Indexes = list() > Indexes[[1]] = df$v7 > Indexes[[2]] = df$v8 > Indexes[[3]] = df$v9 > Indexes[[4]] = df$v10 > > But if I want to include more than four variable/vectors (let's say I want to include 25 of them!), I do not want to have to type all of it. If I do the following command: > > Indexes <- c(df$v7, df$v8, df$v9, df$v10) > > then I run into the same problem as Ken Termiso with having all the integers in one vector. I need to keep the variables/vectors separate.
Does Indexes <- list(df$v7, df$v8, df$v9, df$v10) do what you want? Henrik > > Is this just not possible in R? Any help would be great. Thank you! > > ______________________________________________ > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
