Hi Jim, Wow ! And it does exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much.
That assign function is pretty nice. I should become more familiar with it. Matthew On 7/11/2016 5:59 PM, Jim Lemon wrote:
Hi Matthew, This question is a bit mysterious as we don't know what the object "chr" is. However, have a look at this and see if it is close to what you want to do. # set up a little matrix of character values tTargTFS<-matrix(paste("A",rep(1:4,each=4),"B",rep(1:4,4),sep=""),ncol=4) # try the assignment on the first row and column assign(tTargTFS[1,1],tTargTFS[-1,1]) # see what it looks like - okay A1B1 # run the assignment over the matrix for(i in 1:4) assign(tTargTFS[1,i],tTargTFS[-1,i]) # see what the variables look like A1B1 A2B1 A3B1 A4B1 It does what I would expect. Jim On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Matthew <mccorm...@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:I want to get a value that has been assigned to a variable, and then use that value to be the name of a variable. For example, tTargTFS[1,1] # returns: V1 "AT1G01010" Now, I want to make AT1G01010 the name of a variable: AT1G01010 <- tTargTFS[-1,1] Then, go to the next tTargTFS[1,2]. Which produces V1 "AT1G01030" And then, AT1G01030 <- tTargTFS[-1,2] I want to do this up to tTargTFS[1, 2666], so I want to do this in a script and not manually. tTargTFS is a list of 2: chr [1:265, 1:2666], but I also have the data in a data frame of 265 observations of 2666 variables, if this data structure makes things easier. My initial attempts are not working. Starting with a test data structure that is a little simpler I have tried: for (i in 1:4) { ATG <- tTargTFS[1, i] assign(cat(ATG), tTargTFS[-1, i]) } Matthew ______________________________________________ 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.
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