[R] Re: referencing values of strings
Douglas Bates
bates at stat.wisc.edu
Wed Nov 17 18:32:21 CET 2004
Vito Ricci wrote:
> Hi,
>
> see ? as.numeric
>
> as.numeric(c("-.1"," 2.7 ","-1.5"))
> [1] -0.1 2.7 -1.5
>
> you 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?
I think the question might have been about obtaining the value of the
symbol "x", in which case the answer is
get("x")
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