[R] environments

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Is get("bob") what you are looking for?

It is the usual way to go from the name of an R object (as a character 
string) to the actual object.

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Crispin Miller wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a string representing an environment:
> 
> "bob"
> 
> And an environment
> > bob
> <environment: 0x3901234ac>
> How do write a function that takes the string and returns the
> environment?

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