Hi David,

I would like to have two objects, one containing the values in a column and
the other containing the column's name.

Of course, that's easy to do manually, but I don't want to have to type out
the name of the column more than once (thus, below, I have typed it once in
quotes, and I am trying to find a programatic way to create the other
object, without typing the column name again).

Thank you for your help.

Mark Na


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:06 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:36 PM, mtb954@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello R-helpers,
> >
> > I have run the following lines of code:
> >
> > x<-"cars$dist"
> > y<-noquote(x)
> >
> >
> > Now y is a string containing the characters "cars$dist"
> >
> > My question....is there an R function (or combination of functions) that
> I
> > can apply to y that will cause y to contain the numbers in cars$dist?
> Even
> > better, can I do it without using noquote()?
>
> What is the goal of this effort?
>
> --
>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
>

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