Try: for(t in 4) { # Did you mean ``1:4''? nm <- paste("Trt",sep="") assign(nm,rmultinom(10,size=5,prob=probTrt[t,])) print(rowMeans(get(nm))) }
Notes: (1) You were missing the ``get(t)''; I introduced ``nm'' to save some typing. (2) You need the print() inside the for loop, or you won't see any results. (3) The letter ``t'' is a bad name for an index, since it is the name of the transpose function. No *real* harm, but a dubious practice. (4) You'd probably be better off using a list, rather than constructing a sequence of names. As in Trt <- list() for(i in 1:4) { Trt[[i]] <- rmultinom(10,size=5,prob=probTrt[t,]) print(rowMeans(Trt[[i]]) } cheers, Rolf Turner On 5/03/2008, at 1:44 PM, Kyeongmi Cheon wrote: > Hello, > I'm having trouble in using "assign(paste ..." command . I could > create > several dataframes following trinomial distribution using it but it > could > not be used to check their row means of the created dataframe. > > For example, the following works: > > probTrt=matrix(0,4,3); > probTrt; > #malf, death, normal > probTrt[1,]=c(0.064,0.119,0.817);#for Trt 1 > probTrt[2,]=c(0.053,0.125,0.823);#for Trt 2 > probTrt[3,]=c(0.111,0.139,0.750);#for Trt 3 > probTrt[4,]=c(0.351,0.364,0.285);#for Trt 4 > for (t in 4){ > assign(paste("Trt",t,sep=""),rmultinom(10, size = 5, > prob=probTrt[t,])); > } > > > > But the following does not work. > for (t in 4){ > assign(paste("Trt",t,sep=""),rmultinom(10, size = 5, > prob=probTrt[t,])); > rowMeans(paste("Trt",t,sep="")); > } > > > How can I use it in functions like rowMeans so that I don't have to > type all > the object names? Thank you. > > Kyeongmi > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} ______________________________________________ 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.