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How to remove the double or single quote from a string (unquote?)?

3 messages · JingJiang Yan, Gerrit Eichner, Allan Engelhardt

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Is there a function to get a string without a pair of quotes around it?

I have several expressions like:
glm(V12 ~ V3, family=binomial, data=df1)
glm(V12 ~ V4, family=binomial, data=df1)
...
glm(V12 ~ V8, family=binomial, data=df1)

As you can see, the only differences among them are V3 ... V8.
Because sometimes several of these expressions are performed many times,
I want to use a variable "i" to change the V3 ... V8. I did this with:

 > i <- 3:8
 > glm(V12 ~ paste("V", i, sep=""), family=binomial, data=df1)

However, it seems the paste always returns a variable name with a pair 
of quotes, which were wrong in such condition.
I only find a function "sQuote" to add quotes to a string, and it looks 
I am looking for an opposite function of it.
Any advice will be appreciated.
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Hi, Jing Jiang,

maybe

as.formula( paste( "V12 ~ V", i, sep = ""))

inside the call to glm() does what you need.

Hth  --  Gerrit
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, JingJiang Yan wrote:

            
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This should be a FAQ: you are confusing the value with its printed 
representation.  Try

print(paste("V", 3:8, sep=""), quote=FALSE)

to see that there are no quotes, and you may want to read up on 
help("as.formula", package="stats") which has the examples you are 
searching for.

Allan
On 18/04/11 17:38, JingJiang Yan wrote: