[BioC] How to convert a character string to a variable name?

[Ariel Chernomoretz]

Hi,

I am not 100% sure, but you could try 

get("1441536_at", envir=get(sprintf("%sLOCUSID", cleancdfname(cdfName(x), 
addcdf=FALSE))))

Ariel./

On September 1, 2005 09:35 am, Groot, Philip de wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I have the following particular problem. Consider the following two
> R/BioC commands:
>
>
>
> 1. > get("1441536_at", envir=mouse4302LOCUSID)
>
>     [1] 208715
>
> 2. get("1441536_at", envir=sprintf("%sLOCUSID", cleancdfname(cdfName(x),
> addcdf=FALSE)))
>
>     Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : invalid 'envir' argument
>
>
>
> The problem with the second command is that the 'envir' variable is
> presented as a character string. R cannot handle this and I cannot
> overcome this problem. Somehow, I must make it clear to R that this is
> not a string, but that it is a variable name. Has anyone any idea how to
> do this? This problem seems to be an obvious one, but I spent quite some
> time on this without finding a solution.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Philip de Groot
>
> Wageningen University
>
>
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