I wanted to ask how I can make a for loop or a function return an R
object with a unique name based on either some XX of the for loop or
some input for the function.
For example
if I have a function:
fn<-function(data,year){
which does does some stuff
}
How do I return an object from the function called X.year, such that if
I run fn(data,1989), the output is an object called X.1989?
In a separate but related process, I'm also trying to subset data by
year, where there are multiple observations by years, using the subset()
function. For example:
data.1946<-subset(data, year==1946)
data.1947<-subset(data, year==1947)
data.1948<-subset(data, year==1948)
data.1949<-subset(data, year==1949)
...
How should I set this up? I was thinking of writing a for loop, but I
have never written a for loop that creates objects based on the loop's
index, for example a loop for(i in 1946:2000) that returns 55 objects
with the object names based on the index.
Thanks for your help!
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