Thanks. I also need column name "v5".
Lisa
jholtman wrote:
>
> ?get
>
> something like:
>
>> 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)
>> x <- 5
>> cbind(v1, v2, get(paste('v', x, sep='')))
> v1 v2
> [1,] 0 1 0
> [2,] 1 1 1
> [3,] 0 0 1
>>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Lisa <lisa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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()
>> >> doesnt 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
>> >
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