Generating data.frame objects with a for loop

Is there a way to dynamically create a data.frame (or any object for that matter) witho开发者_如何学编程ut it being initialized as a variable? For example:

for(x in 1:26) { 
paste(letters[x]) <- df[x]
}

Such that you have new variables a,b,c,d,...,z?

Searching around, I found it:

for(x in 1:26) { 
assign(paste(letters[x]), df[x])
}