[R] how to make this get command work?

[Bert Gunter]

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:24 PM, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> If I have a list like this how I can get an object of it  with a variable :
>
> foo<-list(A = c(1,3), B =c(1, 2), C = c(3, 1))
> var <- "A"
>
> get(paste("foo$",'A',sep=''))
> Error in get(paste("foo$", "A", sep = "")) : object 'foo$A' not found
>
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