Message-ID: <1100712642.2495.13.camel@horizons.localdomain>
Date: 2004-11-17T17:30:42Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: referencing values of strings
In-Reply-To: <D35A7FAE1220DB49A018F51A225565E8059FA3@mailisny3.saccap.int>
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:48 -0500, Apoian, Zack wrote:
> 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