On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Brendan Morse <morse.bren...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...I would like to automatically generate a series of matrices and > give them successive names. Here is what I thought at first: > > t1<-matrix(0, nrow=250, ncol=1) > > for(i in 1:10){ > t1[i]<-rnorm(250) > } > > What I intended was that the loop would create 10 different matrices with a > single column of 250 values randomly selected from a normal distribution, > and that they would be labeled t11, t12, t13, t14 etc.
Very close. But since you've started out with a *matrix* t1, your assignments to t1[i] will assign to parts of the matrix. To correct this, all you need to do is initialize t1 as a *list of matrices* or (even better) as an *empty list*, like this: t1 <- list() and then assign to *elements* of the list (using [[ ]] notation), not to *sublists* of the list (which is what [ ] notation means in R), like this: for(i in 1:10){ t1[[i]] <- rnorm(250) } Is that what you had in mind? -s ______________________________________________ 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.