Hi Liu - I have been trying with assign() but it's not working. I don't think that's what I'm looking for........any other ideas? Many thanks, Mark
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Wensui Liu <liuwen...@gmail.com> wrote: > are you looking for assign()? > On Jan 17, 2013 1:56 PM, <mtb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello R-helpers, >> >> I have run the following line of code: >> >> x<-dat$col >> >> and now I would like to assign names(x) to be "dat$col" (e.g., a character >> string equal to the column name that I assigned to x). >> >> What I am trying to do is to assign columns in my dataframe to new objects >> called x and y. Then I will use x and y within a new function to make >> plots >> with informative axis labels (e.g., "dat$col" instead of "x". So, for >> example, I would like to plot (y~x,xlab=names(x)) and have "dat$col" >> printed in the x-axis label. I can do this all manually, by typing >> >> names(x)<- "dat$col) >> >> but I'd like to do it with non-specific code within my function so I don't >> have to type the variable names manually each time. >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Mark Na >> >> [[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. >> > [[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.
