Perhaps the following?

get(call_A)

See ?get for more details.

HTH,
Jorge.-

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:25 PM, chuck.01 <> wrote:

> Let say I have an object (I hope my terminology is correct) a
> a <- 12
> > a
> [1] 12
>
> And "a" has been assigned the number 12, or whatever
> And lets say I have a character "call_A"
> call_A <- "a"
> >call_A
> [1] "a"
>
> What is the function "F" that allows this to happen:
> > F( call_A )
> [1] 12
>
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