[R] SAS like Macro variable substituion?

[Peter Ehlers]

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On 2010-04-12 5:06, David Young wrote:
> I'd like to use a string to refer to an R object with the end
> objective of going through a loop and saving various files of the same
> name with different contents using a numbered suffix.
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> # This will be the loop counter and file suffix.
> master.i<- 1
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> # This is the generic file name.
> unislopes<- c(1,2,3)
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> # This assigns the data to the correct file name "unislopes1".
> assign(paste("unislopes",master.i,sep=""),unislopes)
>
> # This is the problem.  The first parameter of the "save" function
> requires an R object which I'm not sure how to reference using the
> suffix "1".  The second part requires text so it can use the
> paste function.
> save((paste("unislopes",master.i,sep=""),file=paste("unislopes",master.i,".Rdata",sep=""))
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> Any ideas?
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Peter Ehlers
University of Calgary