It depends on what you are assigning. A simple example of assigning the values 1 through 100:
mylist <- lapply(1:100, I) names(mylist) <- paste('var',1:100, sep='') Or if you have 100 files named dat1.txt, dat2.txt, ..., dat100.txt and you want to read them in: mylist <- lapply( paste('dat', 1:100, '.txt', sep=''), function(fname) read.table(fname, header=TRUE) ) names(mylist) <- paste('dat',1:100, sep='') if I want to use dataset 1 I can do it with: > mylist$dat1 Or > mylist[['dat1']] Or > milyst[[1]] Then if I want to do the same regression on each of the 100 datasets (assuming the names are the same) I can do that with a simple: out1 <- lapply( mylist, function(dat) lm( y ~ x, data=dat ) ) then maybe I want all the slopes in a single vector: slopes <- sapply( out1, function(fit) coef(fit)[1] ) hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of hypermonkey22 > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:57 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] looping variable names > > > Thanks for the reply! > > This sounds great. Is there a nice way to store these 100 variable > names in > a list without typing them all out? > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/looping- > variable-names-tp3255711p3256356.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.