Try this:

paste("tot", 4:16, sep = "")


Or:

func <- function(x,y)
{
 paste("tot", x:y, sep = "")
}
func(4,16)




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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:54 PM, arnaud Gaboury <arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear group,
>
> I am trying to write functions, but as a beginner, everything is not so
> obvious.
> Let's say I want the results in a list of elemts like this :
> tot1, tot2, etc
>
> Here is a function:
>
> toto <-
> function(x,y)
>
> {
>
> for(i in x:y){
>
> paste(c("tot",i),collapse="")<-(i*2)
>
> }
> }
>
> If I type this :
> >toto(1,5)
> I get this message error:
> Error in paste(c("tot", i), collapse = "") <- (i * 2) :
>  target of assignment expands to non-language object
>
> How can I write it to get the result I want (i.e tot1, tot2... with tot1=2,
> tot2=4...) in my environment?
>
> TY for any help
>
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