Thanks Jim and All! It works: tmptrial <- trialcompute(trialextract( get(paste("t",tmptrialinfo[1,2],tmptrialinfo[1,16],".gz",sep="")) , tmptrialinfo[1,32],secs,sdm),secs,binsize)
Can I use "assign" instead? How should it be coded then? Thanks! - John On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Jim Holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ?get > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:11, "tsunhin wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm a newbie in R. >> I have a 45x2x2x8 design. >> A dataframe stores the metadata of trials. And each trial has its own >> data file: I used "read.table" to import every trial into R as a >> dataframe (variable). >> >> Now I dynamically ask R to retrieve trials that fit certain selection >> criteria, so I use "subset", e.g. >> tmptrialinfo <- subset(trialinfo, (Subject==24 & Filename=="v2msa8")) >> >> The name of the dataframe / variable of an individual trial can be >> obtained using: >> paste("t",tmptrialinfo[1,2],tmptrialinfo[1,16],".gz",sep="") >> Then I get a string: >> "t24v2msa8.gz" >> which is of the exact same name of the dataframe / variable of that >> trial, which is: >> t24v2msa8.gz >> >> Can somebody tell me how can I change that string (obtained from >> "paste()" above) to be a usable / manipulable variable name, so that I >> can do something, such as: >> (1) >> tmptrial <- trialcompute(trialextract( >> paste("t",tmptrialinfo[1,2],tmptrialinfo[1,16],".gz",sep="") >> ,tmptrialinfo[1,32],secs,sdm),secs,binsize) >> instead of hardcoding: >> (2) >> tmptrial <- >> trialcompute(trialextract(t24v2msa8.gz,tmptrialinfo[1,32],secs,sdm),secs,binsize) >> >> Currently, 1) doesn't work... >> >> Thanks in advance for your help! >> >> Regards, >> >> John >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.