Hi
Dumb question time again, for which I apologise.
I have a variable that contains the following numerical text "04010".
This is the name to access a list:
> as.list(KEGGPATHID2NAME)$"04010"
[1] "MAPK signaling pathway"
Marvellous! Except I want to do that when "04010" is assigned to a
variable called path and I can't figure out how to do it!
> path <- "04010"
>
> # the original and best
> as.list(KEGGPATHID2NAME)$"04010"
[1] "MAPK signaling pathway"
>
> # clearly this doesn't, and shouldn't, work
> as.list(KEGGPATHID2NAME)$path
NULL
>
> # this produces a string...
> eval(paste("as.list(KEGGPATHID2NAME)$",path,sep=''))
[1] "as.list(KEGGPATHID2NAME)$04010"
>
> # as does this
> eval(paste('as.list(KEGGPATHID2NAME)$"',path,'"',sep=''))
[1] "as.list(KEGGPATHID2NAME)$\"04010\""
>
Whats really annoying is that when everyone mails me the answer, I'm
going to have known how obvious it is.... Thanks in advance
Mick
Village Idiot
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