... without answering my previous question, I have just found a fortune-hate workaround,
getIcon <- function(geom){ st <- paste("Geom", firstUpper(geom),"$icon", sep="") eval(parse(text=st)) } getIcon("abline") I'm still curious about the get() behaviour though. Best, baptiste ______________________________________________ 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.