[R] how to iterate through a list using ls

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Its a FAQ:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-turn-a-string-into-a-variable_003f

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Lo, Ken <ken.lo at roche.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know this is an idiotic question, but I am trying to iterate through a
> list of data.frame using ls (I have named the data frames in a way that
> lets me subset them with ls(pattern="test", for example).  But ls
> returns a character vector.  How to I refer to the data frames by their
> names in the list instead of the actual string?
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> Ken
>
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