2011/1/4 André Dias <diasan...@gmail.com>: > hi > > how do I exactly use the get(). I am reading the help for get() but the way > I am using it causes an error/ >
So how are you using it? It's so much easier to explain what you're doing wrong if I know what you're doing. Without a reproducible example I can't show you exactly, but something like: for (i in 1:length(database)) assign(paste("distancematrix",i,sep=""), dist(get(paste("database", i, sep="")))) get() is the counterpart of assign(), though there are better (more R-ish) ways of doing what you want. Sarah > thanks > ADias > > 2011/1/4 Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> >> >> With get(). >> >> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:58 AM, ADias <diasan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Still with the above problem: >> > >> > But for instance, i have a data base with 30 variables and I created an >> > object each with one varibale missing: >> > >> > DataBase - has 30 variables >> > DataBase1 has 29 variables with the 1st variable gone >> > DataBase2 has 29 variables with the 2nd variable gone >> > >> > for(i in 1:length(database)) >> > assign(paste("database",i,sep=""),database[-i]) >> > >> > >> > Now, I wish to create the 30 distance matrix: >> > >> > for (i in 1:length(database)) >> > assign(paste("distancematrix",i,sep=""), >> > dist(database[i])) >> > >> > But doing like this - database[i] - I am just refering to the 1st value >> > on >> > the object database and not to the entire database i. >> > >> > How do I do this? >> > >> > thanks >> > Regards, >> > A.Dias >> > -- >> -- -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.