Hi to you all!

I'm new to R and to this mailing list, so do please excuse me if my question
sounds stupid.

Currently I'm working with a data frame called "results".

In each column of "results" I have a set of results for different
experiments  (all results are numerical) realized in different dates, so
that each row corresponds to a day.

To make it clear when displaying the results, I gave names to the columns
with the names of the experiments realized. I also gave names to the rows
based on the day the experiments where realized.

My problem now is that I'm trying to separate this experiments based on a
criteria that is not important for the moment. What I want to be able to do
is, given an experiment name, obtain the time series of the results of that
experiment.

I know I can do this by typing

results$nameoftheexperiment

But what if I have a variable "name" which contains the experiment's name?

Doing the following

results$name

doesn't work, as expected, since there is no column with name name.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you very much!

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