Hi Peter, Thank you for your reply. The method for looping seems to work, but gDistance will not recognise the input. I am puzzled because when I print(fnp), and print (a_10) they look exactly the same, but when I try to run gDistance{rgeos} with a_10 it works, but with fnp it throws an error. Please see below. Any other suggestions?
>afiles <- ls(pattern= "a_") #OK >print(afiles) [1] "a_1" "a_10" >fnp<- mget(afiles[ifile]) #OK > print(fnp) $a_10 class : SpatialPolygonsDataFrame features : 5 extent : 825796.9, 831270.1, 815666.9, 816562.5 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax) coord. ref. : +proj=aea +lat_1=-5 +lat_2=-42 +lat_0=-32 +lon_0=-60 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=aust_SA +units=m +no_defs variables : 5 names : ID, GRIDCODE, Shape_Leng, Shape_Area, Count min values : 1, 1, 94.2722341164, 6.47354525991, 1 max values : 5, 1, 2305.45647624, 92111.8528756, 1 > print(a_10) class : SpatialPolygonsDataFrame features : 5 extent : 825796.9, 831270.1, 815666.9, 816562.5 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax) coord. ref. : +proj=aea +lat_1=-5 +lat_2=-42 +lat_0=-32 +lon_0=-60 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=aust_SA +units=m +no_defs variables : 5 names : ID, GRIDCODE, Shape_Leng, Shape_Area, Count min values : 1, 1, 94.2722341164, 6.47354525991, 1 max values : 5, 1, 2305.45647624, 92111.8528756, 1 >distance.matrix<- gDistance(fnp, spgeom2= NULL, byid=T) Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) : unable to find an inherited method for function ‘is.projected’ for signature ‘"list"’ -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Varying-name-of-output-tables-from-looped-process-of-list-of-spdf-objects-tp4710369p4710408.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.