I have a list of variables, like a1, a2, a3. Then I want to do a loop for these variable, for instance, assign values. I tried paste, which just gave character like "a1", that was not what I am really look for. Can anyone provide a solution?
2 Answers
We can use mget to get the values in a list
lst <- mget(paste0("a", 1:3)) and then loop through the list and apply the function
lapply(lst, yourFunction) 
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The loop assigns values to all elements in your object. 'a1' gets value '2'; 'a2' gets value '3'; etcetera.
library(stringr) val <- str_c("a", 1:3) for (i in 1:length(val)){ assign(val[i], i+1) } get(val[1])#2 get(val[2])#3 get(val[3])#4 