Greetings guRus --
If a variable, e.g., 'varname', is a character string, e.g. varname <- "datavector", and I want to apply a function, such as table(), to datavector, what syntax or method will do so using only the variable varname? This seems similar to indirect addressing, but I have not seen a method for it in the R manuals. Is there a general name for such indirect reference that one might search for? (This came up while writing a function that takes the value of 'varname' from the keyboard and then applies functions to it.) With thanks for any solution, Ben Fairbank [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.