[R] Create and Assign value into a variable from Another variable

[Jessica Streicher]

This?

> x<-"y"
> assign(x,1)
> y
[1] 1


On 28.08.2012, at 10:16, Bert Gunter wrote:

> Post a small reproducible example to clarify what you want to do.
> 
> -- Bert
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Rantony <antony.akkara at ge.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Here i have a variable named "MyVariable" containing particular name
>> 
>> For eg:-
>> MyVariable <- "UnitNo"
>> 
>> Here my requirement is, i need to get "UnitNo" as another variable by
>> reading "MyVariable"
>> 
>> i need  "UnitNo" as variable name and need to assign some value into that.
>> 
>> i had tried with as.name(MyVariable ) and as.character(MyVariable) - Its
>> getting that value, but im unable to assign
>> something into that variable.
>> 
>> Could you please help me ?
>> 
>> - Thank you
>> Antony
>> 
>> 
>> 
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