assign to an element of a vector

You did not explain the full context of what you are trying to do.  Perhaps
this could help:
varName <- as.name("bahbah")
varName
bahbah
substitute(a[1] <- 0, list(a=varName))
bahbah[1] <- 0

So you could perhaps eval() this expression.

Andy
From: Fernando Saldanha

I am trying to find a way to assign values to elements of a vector
that will be defined by a user. So I don't have the name of the vector
and cannot hard code the assignment in advance. In the example below I
have to get() the vector using its name. When I try to assign to an
element I get an error:

a <- c(1,2,3)
get('a')[1] <- 0
Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language object

Any suggestions?

FS

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