Is get("bob") what you are looking for?
It is the usual way to go from the name of an R object (as a character
string) to the actual object.
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Crispin Miller wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a string representing an environment:
>
> "bob"
>
> And an environment
> > bob
> <environment: 0x3901234ac>
> How do write a function that takes the string and returns the
> environment?
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