[R] Remove " from a string

[Greg Snow]

The best approach is probably to load all of your functions into a list:

> myfunctions <- list()
> myfunctions[[1]] <- NameOfFunction1
> myfunctions[[2]] <- NameOfFunction2
...

Or

> myfunctions <- list()
> for (i in 1:98){
+ myfunctions[[i]] <- get( paste('NameOfFunction',i,sep='') )
+ }
>

Then you can run the function like:

> myfunctions[[Number]](data, ...)

You could use 'get' directly, but the list of functions is probably
cleaner.

Hope this helps, 


-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
(801) 408-8111
 

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Katharina
Vedovelli
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:57 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Remove " from a string

Hi all!

I have lots of functions called in the following pattern
'NameOfFunctionNumber' where the name always stays the same and the
number varies from 1 to 98.
Another function which I run in advance returns the number of the
function which has to be called next.

Now I want to combine 'NameOfFunction' with the 'Number' returned so
that i can call the desired function.
I do this by:

x<-c("NameOfFunction",Number)
z<-paste(x,collapse="")
z

which returns

"NameOfFunctionNumber"

My Problem is that R doesn't recognise this as the name of my function
because of the " at the beginning and the end.
Is there a way of getting rid of those? Or does anybody know another way
of solving this problem?

Thanks a lot for your help!
Cheers,
Katharina

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