[R] Variable Names

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Konstantinos Euripides Vorloou <K.E.Vorloou at durham.ac.uk> writes:

> Dear R users,
> 
> That's probably a silly question even for a newbie but :
> 
> Is it possible to assign variable prices as variable names ?
> For instance, would something like the following work :
> 
> for (i in 1:4)
> {
>  error.i <- some_calculation
> }
> 
> so "error.i" variables would be created for i=1,2,3,4
> i.e.  error.1 error.2 error.3 etc. etc.

Yes. Look at the help page for assign(). Whether it is ever better
than using arrays or lists is questionable, though.

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