[R] How to properly use a generated test string as a name?

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>> Title asks it all.
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>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mark
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>> a = 1:5
>> b1 = 2:6
>> Z = data.frame(a,b1)
>> Z
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>> Z$b1
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>> count = 1
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>> MyName = paste("b",count,sep="")
>> MyName
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>> Z$MyName
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> Z[[MyName]]
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Thank you Erik. I don't think I would have found that for days.

Cheers,
Mark