[R] evaluating the contents of a string

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

David A Richmond <richmond at saintmarys.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> suppose I do: 
> 	b <- matrix(1:9,3,3)
> 	bname <- "b"
> 
> now
> 	dim(b) 
> returns
> 	[1] 3 3
> 
> and    
> 	dim(bname)
> returns
> 	NULL
> 
> is there a function to pass bname to such that dim returns the dimensions
> of b?
> 
> like 
> 	dim(somefunc(bname))
> returns
> 	[1] 3 3 
> 
> does 'somefunc' exist?

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