Hi Ryan, How about: names(merged.parameters)<-merging
Jim On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Ryan Utz <utz.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a vector of characters that I know will be object names and I'd like > to treat this vector as a series of names to create a list. But, for the > life of me, I cannot figure out how to treat a vector of characters as a > vector of object names when creating a list. > > For example, this does exactly what I want to do (with 'merged.parameters' > as the end goal): > > ### > merging=c('alkalinity','iron') > alkalinity=c('39086','29801','90410','00410') > iron=c('01045','01046') > merged.parameters=list(alkalinity,iron) > ### > > But, say I have many, many parameters in 'merging' beyond alkalinity and > iron and I'd like to just cleanly turn the elements in 'merging' into a > list. This does not work: > > ### > merged.parameters=list(get(merging)) > ### > > because it's only grabbing the first element of 'merging', for some reason. > Any advice? This feels like it really should be easy... > > -- > > Ryan Utz, Ph.D. > Assistant professor of water resources > *chatham**UNIVERSITY* > Home/Cell: (724) 272-7769 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.