On how to use named vs. positional arguments, you can also have a look at section 2.3 of "an introduction to R".
2011/9/22 Jean-Christophe BOUËTTÉ <jcboue...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > It's hard to provide you with working code when you don't provide a > reproducible example, but do you really need to create variables? What > about (untested): > > for (i in 1:2) { > first <-cbind(first, result.fun[[i]]) > } > > you will then have to look at > names(first) > and change the last part of it to > paste("array",2:3,sep="") > > Hope that works! > JC > > 2011/9/22 Changbin Du <changb...@gmail.com>: >> HI, Michael, >> >> I tried use x and got the following: >> >>> for (i in 2:3) { >> + >> + assign(x=paste("array", i, sep=""), value=result.fun[[i-1]]) >> + >> + first <-cbind(first, x) >> + >> + } >> *Error in cbind(first, x) : object 'x' not found >> * >> >> But I checked the >> ls() >> "array2" "array3" were created. >> >> Can I put them into the first data set by loop, or manually? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> P.S I search the similar codes from google and can not work as I expected. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:11 AM, R. Michael Weylandt < >> michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> There is no "lab=" argument for assign() hence the error. Did someone >>> provide you with example code that suggested such a thing? remove lab= >>> entirely or replace it with x= to make your code work. More generally type >>> ?assign or args(assign) to see what the arguments for a function are. >>> >>> More generally, this sort of thing may be best handled in a list rather >>> than an set of independent variables. >>> >>> Michael Weylandt >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Changbin Du <changb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> HI, Dear R community, >>>> >>>> I am trying to created new variables and put into a data frame through a >>>> loop. >>>> >>>> My original data set: >>>> >>>> head(first) >>>> probe_name chr_id position array1 >>>> 1 C-7SARK 1 849467 10 >>>> 2 C-4WYLN 1 854278 10 >>>> 3 C-3BFNY 1 854471 10 >>>> 4 C-7ONNE 1 874460 10 >>>> 5 C-6HYCN 1 874571 10 >>>> 6 C-7SCGC 1 874609 10 >>>> >>>> >>>> I have 48 other array data from a list result.fun >>>> array2=result.fun[[1]] >>>> array3=result.fun[[2]] >>>> . >>>> . >>>> >>>> I want the following results: >>>> >>>> probe_name chr_id position array1 array2 array3 >>>> 1 C-7SARK 1 849467 10 10 10 >>>> 2 C-4WYLN 1 854278 10 10 10 >>>> 3 C-3BFNY 1 854471 10 10 10 >>>> 4 C-7ONNE 1 874460 10 10 10 >>>> 5 C-6HYCN 1 874571 10 10 10 >>>> 6 C-7SCGC 1 874609 10 10 10 >>>> >>>> >>>> I used the following codes: >>>> >>>> for (i in 2:3) { >>>> >>>> assign(lab=paste("array", i, sep=""), value=result.fun[[i-1]]) >>>> >>>> first <-cbind(first, lab) >>>> >>>> } >>>> >>>> *Error in assign(lab = paste("array", i, sep = ""), value = result.fun[[i >>>> - >>>> : >>>> unused argument(s) (lab = paste("array", i, sep = ""))* >>>> >>>> >>>> Can anyone give some hits or helps? >>>> >>>> Thanks so much! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sincerely, >>>> Changbin >>>> -- >>>> >>>> [[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. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Sincerely, >> Changbin >> -- >> >> [[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. >> > ______________________________________________ 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.