Hi Johannes, There is a relatively elegant solution if you assign in a list:
reslist <- lapply(1:3, function(x) runif(5)) names(reslist) <- paste("result", LETTERS[1:3], sep = "_") Cheers, Josh On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Johannes Radinger <jradin...@gmx.at> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to use a for loop for repeadely calculating > a maxent model (package dismo, function maxent()) which > creates an object of the class maxent (S4). > I want to collect all the resulting object in a list. > > I tried to simplify my for loop to explain what I want. > There are two problems/questions: > 1) How can I create the new variables in the loop (using paste) and assign > the objects > 2) How can I collect the results (objects) in a list > > X <- factor(c("A","B","C")) > > for(in in X){ > as.name(paste("result","X",sep="_")) <- runif(5) #any object > # create list of objects with names > } > > I read something about assign(), but that assigns a value and not an object > to a variable. Some time ago I did something similar but with a matrix: Thus > I created an empty matrix before the loop and indexed the matrix inside the > loop to assign values. But here it is about assigning ojects to variables and > coercing these to a list. > > Any suggestions are mostly welcomme. > > Thank you, > > best regards, > Johannes Radinger > -- > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.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.