Dear Michael – This is _very_ interesting and I want to play around with the functions you suggest. I had no idea it was so easy to define assignment operators.
However, one question: even after reading the “get” documentation and doing a bunch of mousing around for the expressions “pos” and “the search path”, I am not sure what function the numeral 1 in these expression serves. Why do I want to look in the global environment rather than the current environment? I also can not find anything that explains what the default “pos = -1” does. Thanks for responding! andrewH -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Can-you-turn-a-string-into-a-working-symbol-tp4648343p4651069.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
