[R] tclVar Question

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> On the other hand, if you have the name of a tclVar object as a
> character string and you want to modify the object, then the recipe
> would be something along the lines of
> 
> eval(substitute(tclvalue(foo) <- 5, list(foo=as.name("x.var"))))

...or -- doh! -- noting that tclVar objects are *references* to Tcl
variables, 

z <- get("x.var")
tclvalue(z) <- 5

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