Hi,
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> Please don't post in HTML format... it messes with code examples.
>
> Use character indexing (please read the Introduction to R... again if
> necessary).
>
> myf <- function(df, colname){
> df[ ,colname ]
> }
Or df[[colname]] for data.frames
> colname <- "a"
> myf(m,colname)
>
> Until you learn simple R syntax, I strongly recommend avoiding writing tricky
> code that plays with names of variables.
And even after you learn simple R syntax, if you think the right thing
to do is to use some combo of substitute/eval/quote and friends, I'd
strongly encourage you to think again ...
-steve
--
Steve Lianoglou
Computational Biologist
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Genentech
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