[R] access objects

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi

Beware of shooting in your leg. Instead of poisoning your workspace with 
numerous objects called "obj.n" or something like that you help yourself 
with creating single object of type list. Parts of a list can be accessed 
much more easily than this kind of get construction.

I use R quite a long time but I hardly remember a single event when I used 
such construction; I always used lists.

In your example

lll<-vector("list", 2)
lll[[1]] <- 7:9
lll[[2]] <- 6:2
testf <- function(k) plot(lll[[k]])
testf(1)

Regards
Petr


> Thanks!
> 
> That's exactly it.
> get gets it ;-)
> 
> Berry
> 
> 
> From: michael.weylandt at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:54:48 -0500
> Subject: Re: [R] access objects
> To: berryboessenkool at hotmail.com
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> 
> The get() function should get you where you need. 
> 
> Michael Weylandt
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Berry Boessenkool 
> <berryboessenkool at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> say I have consecutively numbered objects obj1, obj2, ... in my R 
workspace.
> 
> I want to acces one of them inside a function, with the number given as 
anargument.
> 
> Where can I find help on how to do that? Somebody must have been trying 
to
> do this before...
> 
> Some keywords to start a search are appreciated as well.
> 
> 
> 
> Here's an example, I hope it clarifies what I'm trying to do:
> 
> 
> 
> obj1 <- 7:9
> 
> obj2 <- 6:2
> 
> testf <- function(k) plot(  noquote(paste("obj", k, sep=""))  )
> 
> testf(1) # should plot obj1
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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