Not tested: Instead of: cbind(vec.names[1], vec.names[2])
cbind(get(vec.names[1]), get(vec.names[2])) -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of jonas garcia Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:53 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] cbind objects using character vectors Dear list, I have a character vector such vec.names<- c("a", "b") It happens that I have also two R objects called "a" and "b" that I would like to merge. Is it possible to do something like cbind(vec.names[1], vec.names[2]) ending up with the same result as cbind(a,b) Bellow is a reproducible example of what I need to to: dat<- data.frame(A=seq(1,5), B=seq(6,10)) vec.names<- c("a", "b") for(i in 1:ncol(dat)) { tab<- dat[,i]-1 assign(vec.names[i], tab) } cbind(vec.names[1], vec.names[2]) [,1] [,2] [1,] "a" "b" But I was looking after the following result (using vec.names): cbind(a,b) a b [1,] 0 5 [2,] 1 6 [3,] 2 7 [4,] 3 8 [5,] 4 9 Thanks in advance Jonas [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.