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
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