My reaction is... why do you think this is a good approach to pursue?
Avoid using assign!
library( fortunes )
fortune( 236 )
If you really need another level of containment, put your multiple lists into
another list:
lst <- lapply( 1:10, list )
lst[[1]][[1]] <- 5
--
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On April 30, 2017 8:20:17 AM PDT, Jinsong Zhao <jsz...@yeah.net> wrote:
>On 2017/4/30 23:17, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have a problem with assign(). Here is the demo code:
>>
>> for (i in 1:10) {
>> # create a list with variable name as list_1, list_2, ..., etc.
>> assign(paste("list_", i, sep = ""), list())
>> # I hope to assign 5 to list_?[[1]], but I don't know how to code
>it.
>> # list_1[[1]] <- 5 # works, however
>> assign(paste("list_", i, "[[1]]", sep = "", 5) # does not work
> # wrong code in previous message, the correct on should be:
> assign(paste("list_", i, "[[1]]", sep = ""), 5) # does not work...
>> }
>>
>> How to do? Is there any alternatives? Many thanks!
>>
>> Best,
>> Jinsong
>
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