[R] How to pass strings to functions? [once once more, now With content I hope...]

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Gijs Plomp wrote:

> Dear expeRts,
>
> I fail to succesfully pass strings to functions. It comes down to the
> observation that
>
>  > plot(someVariable,anotherVariable)
>
> works fine, but
>
>  > x <- "someVariable"
>  > y <- "anotherVariable"
>  > plot(x,y)
>
> does not.
>
> Does this have something to do with the returned value of x being
> /"someVariable"/ and not /someVariable/, i.e. without the quotation
> marks? Is there any way to work around this?
>

This is in the FAQ.

	-thomas