Re: [R] Creating new dataset based on variable name

Scott/David, Thanks for your help - what I was looking for was assign. This takes care of my question. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Creating-new-dataset-based-on-variable-name-tp3769285p3769620.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[R] Creating new dataset based on variable name

I am trying to import several different SAS transport files into R. I know how to get the files into R as data frames, however, I don't want to do this one at a time for all ~60 data sets. I also want to convert the name from file name to something I can understand (e.g., from q181 to doctor.visits