Use of variables to reference to objects

The "get" function is the usual answer to this sort of question, but is 
not right
for this particular case.  Actually, a simpler answer works.

lines(spectral$Wavelength, spectral[[ paste("a", j, sep="") ]], col=j)

Using "get" would want to get objects with names like "spectral$a1"
rather than the "a1" component of "spectral".



Patrick Burns
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Hi,

I'm new to R and looking for a way to use a variable to reference to 
an object.

I'm plotting several graphs on top of each other and want to do this 
by a for loop. The field I want to graph have names like a1,a2,a3, ...
I can't figure out how to get this working:

It should look like this:
lines(spectral$Wavelength,paste("spectral$a",j,sep=""),col=j)

but the "paste()" does not seem to work in this context.

Any help?

Kind regards,

Kris

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