Hello, I am guessing by my environment you mean the global environment (where you normally assign things from the console). It also looks like you would like the results of your function call to be a set of new objects created. If that is what you are looking for, try:
toto <- function(x,y) { for(i in x:y){ assign(paste(c("tot",i),collapse=""), (i*2), envir=.GlobalEnv) } } toto(1,5) #creates 5 objects in the global environment, tot1, tot2, ..., tot5 HTH, Josh On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:54 AM, 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 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.