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Map a string to an object

3 messages · Fernando Saldanha, Marc Schwartz, Seth Falcon

Fernando Saldanha
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Is there a way in R to get an object whose name is given by a string?

That is, like a function getObject(mystring) such that

getObject('astring') 

returns the object astring (assuming it exists)?

Thanks.

FS
Marc Schwartz
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On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 19:46 -0400, Fernando Saldanha wrote:
Yep. You are close.

See ?get
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function (name, pos = -1, envir = as.environment(pos), all.names =
FALSE,
    pattern)
{
    if (!missing(name)) {
        nameValue <- try(name)
...


HTH,

Marc Schwartz
Seth Falcon
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Fernando Saldanha <fsaldan1 at gmail.com> writes:
?get