referencing values of strings

Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character
string "x" .  How would I take "x" as an input and return the vector x?

If I am understanding you correctly:

x <- 1:10

x

[1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

x.char <- "x"

get(x.char)

[1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10


See ?get for more information.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz