[R] produce variable on the fly

[Erik Iverson]

?assign , or consider a named vector/list.

jimineep wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I want to create variable on the fly: for example
> 
> for (i in 1:10) {
>     cat(paste("VAR",i,sep=""))
> }
> Will print VAR1, VAR2 etc up to VAR10. However I want to make these into
> variables, and then give them a value, for example:
> 
> vect = c(10:20)
> 
> for (i in 1:10) {
>     cat(paste("VAR",i,sep="")) = vect[i]
> }
> 
> THis doesnt work but I hope it demonstrates what I'm trying to do: I'm
> trying to produce 10 variables, from VAR1 to VAR10, which have the numbers
> 11...20 respectively, so I would end up with 
> 
> VAR1 = 11
> VAR2 = 12
> ...
> VAR10 = 20
> 
> Hope this makes sense!! Does anyone have any ideas?