Map a string to an object

Is there a way in R to get an object whose name is given by a string?

That is, like a function getObject(mystring) such that

getObject('astring') 

returns the object astring (assuming it exists)?

Thanks.

Yep. You are close.

See ?get

x <- 1:10

get("x")

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

get("ls")

function (name, pos = -1, envir = as.environment(pos), all.names =
FALSE,
    pattern)
{
    if (!missing(name)) {
        nameValue <- try(name)
...


HTH,

Marc Schwartz