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armipunk
armipunk

Reputation: 458

How to assign object to output of a function?

I'm trying to assign something to the output of Sys.Date(). For example, say I want to name the object with today's date:

format(Sys.Date(), "%b%d") <- mtcars

I get the error:
invalid (NULL) left side of assignment.

I tried:
eval(parse(text = format(Sys.Date(), "%b%d"))) <- mtcars

Gets the same error msg. What am I missing / is there a solution?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 575

Answers (1)

akrun
akrun

Reputation: 887951

We can use assign

assign(format(Sys.Date(), "%b%d"), mtcars)

head(Sep11)
#                    mpg cyl disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
#Mazda RX4         21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.620 16.46  0  1    4    4
#Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.875 17.02  0  1    4    4
#Datsun 710        22.8   4  108  93 3.85 2.320 18.61  1  1    4    1
#Hornet 4 Drive    21.4   6  258 110 3.08 3.215 19.44  1  0    3    1
#Hornet Sportabout 18.7   8  360 175 3.15 3.440 17.02  0  0    3    2
#Valiant           18.1   6  225 105 2.76 3.460 20.22  1  0    3    1

Upvotes: 1

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