Can I ask why you aren't just passing in the object to your function, but instead a text name for that object?
Ben Fairbank wrote: > 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]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
