Try this:

 apply(Vectorize(get)(ls(patt = 'data')), 2, t.test)

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Arne Schulz <
arne.schulz@student.uni-kassel.de> wrote:

> Dear list,
> I'd like to do several t-test within a for loop. Example follows:
>
> data1 <- rnorm(1:25)
> data2 <- rnorm(1:25)
> vars <- c("data1", "data2")
>
> for (i in vars) {
>        t.test(i)
> }
>
> Unfortunately, it does not work because of the quotes in the vars-vector
> (running t.test(data1) by hand works).
>
> How can I remove the quotes before performing the test?
>
> Sincerely,
> Arne Schulz
>
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