You probably want to use get(), which is the converse of assign():

rbind(get(Variable_1), data.frame(read.csv("c:\\My2ndData.csv")))


On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Akkara, Antony (GE Energy, Non-GE) <
Antony.Akkara@ge.com> wrote:

>
> Ok.
> Here I have a variable called "Variable_1".
>
> Variable_1 <- "MyDataFrame"
>
> Here I want to create another variable, by assigning the value of
>  "Variable_1" .
> So, it will come like,
>
> Assign(Variable_1,data.frame(read.csv("c:\\Mydata.csv")))   --->[this was
> the 1st requirement, now I got the solution]
>
> Now, " MyDataFrame " is a variable and containing some values in that.
> And Now, the problem what is I need to do "rbind" into the variable "
> MyDataFrame ".
>
> I tried to do,
> rbind(as.character(Variable_1), data.frame(read.csv("c:\\My2ndData.csv")))
>
> and I tried this too
>
> rbind(as.name(Variable_1), data.frame(read.csv("c:\\My2ndData.csv")))
>
> and I getting the error like
>
> Error: " object of type 'symbol' is not subsettable "
>
>
> Here I am getting stuck !
>
>
> - Thanks
> Antony
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Gunter [mailto:gunter.berton@gene.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:46 PM
> To: Akkara, Antony (GE Energy, Non-GE)
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Create and Assign value into a variable from Another
> variable
>
> Post a small reproducible example to clarify what you want to do.
>
> -- Bert
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Rantony <antony.akkara@ge.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here i have a variable named "MyVariable" containing particular name
> >
> > For eg:-
> > MyVariable <- "UnitNo"
> >
> > Here my requirement is, i need to get "UnitNo" as another variable by
> > reading "MyVariable"
> >
> > i need  "UnitNo" as variable name and need to assign some value into
> that.
> >
> > i had tried with as.name(MyVariable ) and as.character(MyVariable) -
> > Its getting that value, but im unable to assign something into that
> > variable.
> >
> > Could you please help me ?
> >
> > - Thank you
> > Antony
> >
> >
> >
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