last question of 2001

[Stafford Phillip-APS095 <phillip.stafford@motorola.com>]

Dear S news;

Thanks again for all the advice through 2001, it's been a great help.  

Is it possible to perform manipulations on a data.frame through a variable name 
using assign and eval(parse())?  I have a set of variables, "data.1, data.2, 
......, data.50000" and I have a 50,000 data frames each 1280x1280.  I would 
like to change the names() of data.x as well as operate on, add to and subtract 
from specific data columns directly for these data.frames using only variable 
names, not the object itself.  Is there more to assign than I've found?  I've 
tried assign("data.10[1,1]",10) but that will not work.  Any ideas?


Thanks again, esp. you guys at Insightful;


Phillip Stafford