There was a rather in depth article on doing macros in R in the R newsletter a
couple of years ago. There is also the defmacro function in the gtools package
based on that article that can make the job easier for many cases.
See fortune(236) before taking the assign route.
--
Gregory (Greg) L
One option, see ?assign and write a wrapper around it, using the "pos"
argument.
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Hi,
I guess you want ?assign
See also this page for a working example,
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=guides:assigning-variable-names
HTH,
baptiste
2009/9/29 David Young :
> Hello All,
>
> I'm a new R user and have a question about what in SAS would be called
> macro variable sub
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