[R] referencing values of strings

[Arne Henningsen]

"get" is your friend:

R> x <- c( 1, 2, 3 )
R> get( "x" )
[1] 1 2 3

All the best,
Arne

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 16:48, Apoian, Zack wrote:
> Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character
> string "x" .  How would I take "x" as an input and return the vector x?
>
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