character string as object name
Does the first item on page 52 of 'The R Inferno' explain it for you? If not, can you give some hints about how to improve the explanation? Patrick Burns patrick at burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of "The R Inferno" and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")
Fuchs Ira wrote:
Can someone please tell me why the following (last line) doesn't work
(as I expect it to :-)
library(quantmod)
a = getSymbols("MSFT",from="2009-3-01")
a
MSFT
eval(as.name(a))
MSFT$MSFT.Adjusted
b=paste(a,'$MSFT.Adjusted',sep='')
b
eval(as.name(b))
Why does this last line not work the way the earlier eval does?
Thanks.
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