1. ?assign is what you're looking for, I think. 2. But I would guess that you do not need to do this. As a further guess, see ?do.call for creating a function call that you can give a list of arguments/parameters.
Cheers, Bert On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Charles Annis <charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com> wrote: > Sorry for using "parameters" when I meant "objects." I also wasn't > sufficiently clear about what I'm trying to do. > > Your suggestion produces a single object, "parameters." What I want are 26 > objects, a , b, c, ... whose values are df$values, which in my case are > numeric. > > Thanks. > > Charles Annis, P.E. > > charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com > http://StatisticalEngineering.com > 561-352-9699 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 7, 2013 8:04 AM > To: Charles Annis > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] convert data.frame to parameters > > On 07/10/2013 7:56 AM, Charles Annis wrote: >> Greetings: >> >> I have a 24 row, 2-column csv file. The first column is character, >> with the names of parameters. The second column is numeric, >> containing the parameter values. >> >> I can produce a 2-column data.frame with case.study.parameters <- >> read.csv(...) >> >> I want to convert the data.frame to 24 parameters having those names >> and their associated numeric values. >> >> I've tried using package "ParamHelpers" with no success. Likely >> because it really isn't intended for that purpose. >> >> Can anyone help? > > You say you want "parameters", but that's not an R type. So here's one way, > but it might not be what you're looking for. > > df <- data.frame(names=letters, values=1:26) parameters <- df$values > names(parameters) <- df$names > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 ______________________________________________ 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.
