Re: [R] Help pasting string as object name

2009-04-03 Thread Rob Denniker
om: ba...@exeter.ac.uk > Sent: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:02:31 +0100 > To: bearmarketsr...@inbox.com > Subject: Re: [R] Help pasting string as object name > > Hi, > > Is this what you want? > > d <- data.frame(density.AL = seq(1, 10), > density.AK = seq(1, 10), # m

Re: [R] Help pasting string as object name

2009-04-03 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, Is this what you want? d <- data.frame(density.AL = seq(1, 10), density.AK = seq(1, 10), # many others... Date=letters[1:10]) # dummy example library(reshape) melt(subset(d, Date == "b"), id="Date") BTW, I spotted a few awkward things in your code, st <- c("AL",

[R] Help pasting string as object name

2009-04-03 Thread Rob Denniker
I have a data frame containing monthly observations of the 'density' of each US state, recorded in variables named "density.AL", "density.AK", "density.AZ", and so on for all 50 states. The data frame (called d) also contains a variable called "Date" which is encoded as a string in the format "J