title: How to name variables on the fly?
body: <p>Is it possible to create new variable names on the fly?</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to read data frames from a list into new variables with numbers at the end. Something like orca1, orca2, orca3...</p>
  
  <p>If I try something like</p>
  
  <pre><code>paste("orca",i,sep="")=list_name[[i]]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this error</p>
  
  <pre><code>target of assignment expands to non-language object
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there another way around this?</p>