[R] [External] Convert a character string to variable names

[Erin Hodgess]

Awesome, thank you so much!

Sincerely,
Erin

Erin Hodgess, PhD
mailto: erinm.hodgess using gmail.com


On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 4:05 PM Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu> wrote:

> > x <- c("mtcars$disp", "mtcars$hp", "mtcars$cyl")
> > x
> [1] "mtcars$disp" "mtcars$hp"   "mtcars$cyl"
> > eval(parse(text=x))
>  [1] 6 6 4 6 8 6 8 4 4 6 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 4 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 8 6 8 4
> > for (i in x) print(eval(parse(text=i)))
>  [1] 160.0 160.0 108.0 258.0 360.0 225.0 360.0 146.7 140.8 167.6 167.6
> 275.8 275.8 275.8 472.0 460.0 440.0  78.7  75.7  71.1 120.1 318.0
> [23] 304.0 350.0 400.0  79.0 120.3  95.1 351.0 145.0 301.0 121.0
>  [1] 110 110  93 110 175 105 245  62  95 123 123 180 180 180 205 215 230
> 66  52  65  97 150 150 245 175  66  91 113 264 175 335 109
>  [1] 6 6 4 6 8 6 8 4 4 6 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 4 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 8 6 8 4
>
>
> > On Feb 07, 2022, at 17:55, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> .x
> >
> > [1] "mtcars$disp" "mtcars$hp"   "mtcars$cyl"
>
>

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