loop for character variable names in r

Question

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

Answer 1

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)