convert string to variable

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Uwe Ligges
Hello,

Is it possible to convert a string to a variable?

I have a set of names:

stocks
  [1] "ACCELL" "AHOLD"       "AJAX"            "ARCADIS"      "BALLAST"
"BAM.GROEP"
  [7] "BESI"            "BETER.BED"       "BINCKBANK.NV"    "BOSKALIS"
  "CATE"  "CROWN.V.GELDER"

And a data frame with stockquotes.

With a for-loop I want to create variables (ACCEL, AHOLD ....)  with quotes
from the data frame 'data':

for (i in stocks){
k=1; m=2
m=10
??i<- data[,k:m]
k=k+2; m=10+2
}

How can I do this?

Thanks for the answer.
Andr?

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