On 07.02.2013 17:16, christel lacaze wrote:

Hi there,

I've got a set of 10 numeric variables called Mood1 to Mood10 in a dataset 
called mood.  I'm trying to create a set of 10 new variables called m1 to m10 
so that m1=Mood1*1, m2=Mood2*2, etc to m10=Mood10*10

Trawling through the internet, I eventually tried the following code:

for (i in 1:10){
   assign(x=paste0("mood$m",i),
          value=paste0("mood$Mood",i)*i,
          envir=.GlobalEnv)
}



Indexing works via

mood[[paste0("Mood", i)]]


However, assignment to separate objects is typically a bad idea, just aollect them in another data.frame or list.

Uwe Ligges







unfortunately this doesn't work as it seems the paste0 function returns a list 
object that only contains the vector's name and not the vector itself.

Hope someone can help...

Christel
                                        
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