Thanks everyone.

On 3/14/08, Simon Blomberg <s.blomberg1@uq.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Or maybe use assign?
>
> > assign("natural_nums", 1:10)
> > natural_nums
> [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
> >
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 14:39 +1000, Bill.Venables@csiro.au wrote:
> > I'm not sure why you would wish to do so, but it can be done:
> >
> > > natural_nums <- 1:10
> > > even_nums <- seq(2,10, by = 2)
> > > types <- c("natural_nums", "even_nums")
> >
> > > types <- lapply(types, as.name)  ## list of variable names
> > > types
> > [[1]]
> > natural_nums
> >
> > [[2]]
> > even_nums
> >
> > > eval(types[[1]])
> >  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
> > > eval(types[[2]])
> > [1]  2  4  6  8 10
> >
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org]
> > On Behalf Of Ng Stanley
> > Sent: Friday, 14 March 2008 1:27 PM
> > To: r-help
> > Subject: [R] How to turn a string into a variable name ?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > For example,
> >
> > natural_nums <- 1:10
> > even_nums <- seq(2,10, by = 2)
> > types <- c("natural_nums", "even_nums")
> >
> > What functions can be performed on types[1] to turn it into a variable
> > name
> > and not a string ?
> >
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