[R] Programming/scripting with "expressions - variables"

[Gorjanc Gregor]

Hello to Rusers!

I am puzzled with R and I really do not know where to look
in for my problem. I am moving from SAS and I have difficulties
in translating SAS to R world. I hope I will get some hints 
or pointers so I can study from there on.

I would like to do something like this. In SAS I can write 
a macro as example bellow, which is afcourse a silly one but 
shows what I don't know how to do in R.

%macro test(data, colname, colvalue);
    data &data;
        ...
        &colname="&colvalue";
        other_&colname="other_&colvalue";
    run;
%mend;

And if I run it with this call:
%test(Gregor, Gorjanc, 25);

I get a table with name 'Gregor' and columns 'Gorjanc', 
and 'other_Gorjanc' with values:

Gorjanc other_Gorjanc
"25"    "other_25"

So can one show me the way to do the same thing in R? 

Thanks!

--
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor GORJANC

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