[R] Create and Assign value into a variable from Another variable

[Jessica Streicher]

I'm not quite sure what you expect as a result there..

On 28.08.2012, at 12:34, Akkara, Antony (GE Energy, Non-GE) wrote:

> Ok.
> Here I have a variable called "Variable_1".
> 
> Variable_1 <- "MyDataFrame"
> 
> Here I want to create another variable, by assigning the value of
> "Variable_1" .
> So, it will come like,
> 
> Assign(Variable_1,data.frame(read.csv("c:\\Mydata.csv")))   --->[this
> was the 1st requirement, now I got the solution]
> 
> Now, " MyDataFrame " is a variable and containing some values in that.
> And Now, the problem what is I need to do "rbind" into the variable "
> MyDataFrame ".
> 
> I tried to do,
> rbind(as.character(Variable_1),
> data.frame(read.csv("c:\\My2ndData.csv")))
> 
> Here I am getting stuck !
> 
> 
> - Thanks
> Antony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rui Barradas [mailto:ruipbarradas at sapo.pt] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:48 PM
> To: Akkara, Antony (GE Energy, Non-GE)
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Create and Assign value into a variable from Another
> variable
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Try the following, supposing that 1:5 is the value you want to assign.
> 
> ?assign
> MyVariable <- "UnitNo"
> assign(MyVariable, 1:5)
> UnitNo
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rui Barradas
> 
> Em 28-08-2012 07:48, Rantony escreveu:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Here i have a variable named "MyVariable" containing particular name
>> 
>> For eg:-
>> MyVariable <- "UnitNo"
>> 
>> Here my requirement is, i need to get "UnitNo" as another variable by 
>> reading "MyVariable"
>> 
>> i need  "UnitNo" as variable name and need to assign some value into
> that.
>> 
>> i had tried with as.name(MyVariable ) and as.character(MyVariable) - 
>> Its getting that value, but im unable to assign something into that 
>> variable.
>> 
>> Could you please help me ?
>> 
>> - Thank you
>> Antony
>> 
>> 
>> 
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