[R] call object from character?

chuck.01 CharlieTheBrown77 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 05:11:35 CEST 2012


I figured as much. 
Thank you greatly. 



plangfelder wrote
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:25 PM, chuck.01 <CharlieTheBrown77@>
> wrote:
>> Let say I have an object (I hope my terminology is correct) a
>> a <- 12
>>> a
>> [1] 12
>>
>> And "a" has been assigned the number 12, or whatever
>> And lets say I have a character "call_A"
>> call_A <- "a"
>>>call_A
>> [1] "a"
>>
>> What is the function "F" that allows this to happen:
>>> F( call_A )
>> [1] 12
> 
> 
> Use get:
> 
>> a = 12
>> get("a")
> [1] 12
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Peter
> 
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