I'm not sure if I'm understanding what you're asking for but this may be it:
> DV="b" > assign(DV,1:4) > DV [1] "b" > b [1] 1 2 3 4 On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bobby Prill wrote: > Please help me evaluate a "dynamic variable" as show in the code > snippet below. > > # regular variable > a = c(1,2,3,4) > > # dynamic variable set at runtime > DV = "a" > > eval(DV) > --> a > > eval(eval(DV)) > --> a > > # what I want > something_goes_here(DV) > --> 1,2,3,4 > > Can someone teach me how to do this? Thanks very much. > > - Bobby > > ______________________________________________ > [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. > ***************************************************************** Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School Fellowship Program in Transfusion Medicine Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Homepage: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kuruvill/home/ ______________________________________________ [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.
