Try this: 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], sep=''))[,3])) }
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Steve Murray <smurray...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ 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.