Thank you for your help. But here I just want to combine some vectors by column based on the numbers determined by other R script.
For example, I have five vectors: v1 <- c(0, 1, 0) v2 <- c(1, 1, 0) v3 <- c(2, 1, 2) v4 <- c(2, 2, 1) v5 <- c(0, 1, 1) If I am going to combine the first two vectors, and one more other vector determined by my other R script, say, vector 5. Then my R script is x <- 5 cbind(v1, v2, paste("v", x, sep = "")) The output is v1 v2 [1,] "0" "1" "v5" [2,] "1" "1" "v5" [3,] "0" "0" "v5" This is not what I want. I want to get this: v1 v2 v5 [1,] 0 1 0 [2,] 1 1 1 [3,] 0 0 1 Can you give me further suggestions or comments? Thanks a lot. Lisa Barry Rowlingson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Lisa <lisa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you for your reply. But in the following case, “cat()” or “print()” >> doesn’t work. >> >> data.frame(cbind(variable 1, variable 2, cat(paste("variable", x), >> "\n"))), >> where x is a random number generated by other R script. >> >> Lisa > > Yes, because you are Doing It Wrong. If you have data that is indexed > by an integer, don't store it in variables called variable1, variable2 > etc, because very soon you will be posting a message to R-help that is > covered in the R FAQ... > > Store it in a list: > > v = list() > v[[1]] = c(1,2,3,4,5) > v[[2]] = c(4,5,6,7,8,9,9,9) > > then you can do v[[i]] for integer values of i. > > If you really really must get values of variable by name, perhaps > because someone has given you a data file with variables called > variable1 to variable99, then use the paste() construction together > with the 'get' function: > > [ not tested, but should work ] > > > v1="99" > > v2="102" > > i=2 > > get(paste("v",i,sep="")) > [1] 102 > > Barry > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Remove-double-quotation-marks-tp990502p990586.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.