Re: [R] non-language object

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From: Prof Brian Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Sun 17 Jun 2001 - 02:11:22 EST 

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106161709480.2271-100000@gannet.stats>

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matt Pocernich wrote:

> How do I paste together text and number so that it is acceptable as an
> object to which I can assign a value?
>
> > paste("file", 1, "max", sep="") <- 1
> Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language object
> >

Use assign. As in

> assign(paste("file", 1, "max", sep=""), 1)
> ls()
[1] "file1max" 

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