Thanks Don but
table[,list1] did not work either: Error in `[.data.frame`(table, , list1) : undefined columns selected. I'm guessing my list (list1) is not structured right? Displaying it has no commas, so the whole list may be taken as a single variable rather than a sequence of variables? I've tried various ways of reformatting (c(), as.list(), etc), but no go. also "i in namelist" does not work while "i %in% namelist" does. I don't really reference "i" in any function, only using it in the conditional. Any other suggestions? Thanks Jon -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/subset-columns-from-list-with-variable-substitution-tp4631374p4631394.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
