Alberto Monteiro wrote: > This must be a stupid question, but is there any "extension" of get? > > For example: > x <- 10 > get("x") # gives me 10 > get("x^2") # gives me an error 'get' really only gets R objects - you want to evaluate an expression - like this: > x=2 > eval(parse(text="x^2")) [1] 4 Barry