"get" might be good enough for you: > a <- 10 > name <- "a" > get("a") [1] 10 > get(name) [1] 10 >
Gabor On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:42:07PM -0700, runner wrote: > > What I am trying to do is as follows: > > - I have listed names of all wanted objects (datasets A,B,C... ) in current > workspace as a vector: > > obj <- c('A','B','C') > > - then i need to use these objects, say to extract all the 1st columns and > bind to an existing dataset ('data'): > > for ( i in 1:3){ > newdata <- obj[i] > data <- cbind(data,newdata [[1]] ) > } > > Obviously, it doesn't work since obj[i] is just a string of dataset name. > Here is my question: how to call it as a original dataset? Thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/enable-object-name-to-be-called-as-object-%28a-dataset%29-tf4403933.html#a12563767 > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MTA RMKI, ELTE TTK ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.