Dear all, I am trying to calculate the mean of one column for many data frames. The code I am using is as follows:
> for (i in seq(nrow(index))) { assign(paste(model, "_mean_",index$year[i], index$month[i], sep=''), mean(get(paste(model, index$year[i], index$month[i], "[,3]", sep='')))) } Error in get(paste(model, index$year[i], index$month[i], "[,3]", sep = "")) : object 'cccma207101[,3]' not found The error message I'm getting is strange, because this object does exist: str(cccma207101[,3]) num [1:61538] 0.687 2.661 0 0 0 ... If I leave the "[,3]" out of the loop, the code seems to work fine - so I'm isolating this as the cause of the problem for now. My question is therefore, how can I use the above code to extract column three from each of the (360) data frames? Many thanks for any help offered, Steve _________________________________________________________________ Got a cool Hotmail story? Tell us now ______________________________________________ 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.