Re: [R] puzzles with assign()

Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > > .. > That's because constructing names like this is generally a bad idea. > But you can do it; you use get() to get the object whose name is in > temp.name. So put data=get(temp.name) into your lm() call. > I had another useful answer (sent privately) from

Re: [R] puzzles with assign()

David.Epstein wrote: I'm trying to get code along the following lines to work: temp.name <- paste(TimePt,'df',sep='.') # invent a relevant name/symbol as a character string. assign(temp.name,IGF.df[IGF.df$TPt==TimePt,]) # this works. The relevant variable is now a data frame lm(b ~ Strain+BWt+PWt

[R] puzzles with assign()

I'm trying to get code along the following lines to work: temp.name <- paste(TimePt,'df',sep='.') # invent a relevant name/symbol as a character string. assign(temp.name,IGF.df[IGF.df$TPt==TimePt,]) # this works. The relevant variable is now a data frame lm(b ~ Strain+BWt+PWt+PanPix, data=temp.nam