Re: [R] binding vectors or matrix using their names

[Patrick Burns]

Not at all -- I can obfuscate much better.  

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Goodness Patrick, this must surely qualify for the obfuscated R competition finals.  I love it!

 

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A more serious, philosophical word on Patrick's solution.  It is rarely necessary (in my limited experience, sure) to have to use parse() like this.  Where it provides a quick (kludgy?) solution I often find it a useful exercise to consider alternatives.  They often come out simpler and you nearly always pick up something useful in the process.

Bill V.

 

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I think you are looking for the eval-parse-text idiom:

eval(parse(text=paste("cbind(", paste(my.names, collapse=", "), ")")))

Patrick Burns

 

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Hello list,
I have two vectors x and x2:
x=runif(10)
x2=runif(10)
and one vectors with their names :

my.names=c("x","x2")

I would like to cbind these two vectors using their names contained
       

in the
     

vector my.names.
       

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