Re: [R] Antwort: Accessing an object using a string (SOLVED)

2016-08-15 Thread Bert Gunter
While I generally agree with Jeff's caution and advice about the use of get(), I have also often struggled with designing suitable interfaces for loading and saving files. So I just wanted to add that the interactive file.choose() function can be very helpful in this context if you aren't already

Re: [R] Antwort: Accessing an object using a string (SOLVED)

2016-08-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Use of "get" usually means you are doing something wrong in setting up your approach to a problem. That is, if you design your interface to your functions to be overly general, it will become full of surprises later. If in fact the data you are interested in referring to is a column in a data

[R] Antwort: Accessing an object using a string (SOLVED)

2016-08-15 Thread G . Maubach
Hi All, I found the function get() which returns an object. My whole function looks like this: -- cut -- #--- # Module: t_load_dataset.R # Author: Georg Maubach # Date : 2016-08-15 # Update