Thanks for the reply, Simon!

I just want to name a object as the text string. So I have "AGE" then how
can I do

somecommand("AGE") = 39

then I should have

AGE = 39 in my data set.


Joe



On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Simon Blomberg <s.blomberg1@uq.edu.au>wrote:

> ?assign
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 00:03 -0500, Xing Yuan wrote:
> > Hello R users,
> >
> > Does anybody know what command I should use to convert the text string
> "AGE"
> > to be variable name AGE so I can assign value to it
> > e.g. AGE = 39?
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > Joe
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