Create a variable name with paste in R

Question

See below   paste  perf a    1   sep        1   perf a1    What if I want to assign a value to perf a1   I tried as name  as symbol  etc   with no avail   as name paste  perf a    1   sep        5   Error in as name paste  perf a    1   sep          5        target of assignment expands to non-language object as symbol paste  perf a    1   sep        5   Error in as symbol paste  perf a    1   sep          5        target of assignment expands to non-language object noquote paste  perf a    1   sep        5   Error in noquote paste  perf a    1   sep          5        target of assignment expands to non-language object

User · Answer

In my case function eval   works very good  Below I generate 10 variables and assign them 10 values   lhs  lt - rnorm 10  rhs  lt - paste  perf a   1 10    lt -   lhs  sep     eval parse text rhs

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In my case the symbols I create  Tax1  Tax2  etc   already had values but I wanted to use a loop and assign the symbols to another variable  So the above two answers gave me a way to accomplish this  This may be helpful in answering your question as the assignment of a value can take place anytime later   output NULL for i in 1 8      Tax eval as symbol paste  Tax  i sep          L Data1 L Data all which L Data all Taxon  Tax 1    L Data all Taxon  Tax 2    L Data all Taxon  Tax 3    L Data all Taxon  Tax 4    L Data all Taxon  Tax 5        L Data L Data1 Length which L Data1 Station  Plant 1    L Data1 Station  Plant 2       h hist L Data breaks breaks plot FALSE     output cbind output h counts

User · Answer

See  assign    gt  assign paste  tra    1  sep        5   gt  tra 1    1  5

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You can use assign  doc  to change the value of perf a1    gt  assign paste  perf a    1   sep     5   gt  perf a1  1  5

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