This works for me... get0 = function(x) get(x,pos=1) sapply(big.char, get0)
The extra step seems necessary because without it, get() gets base::cat() instead of cat. cheers, Steve -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess Sent: Friday, 24 April 2015 10:41a To: R help Subject: [R] cbind question, please Hello! I have a cbind type question, please: Suppose I have the following: dog <- 1:3 cat <- 2:4 tree <- 5:7 and a character vector big.char <- c("dog","cat","tree") I want to end up with a matrix that is a "cbind" of dog, cat, and tree. This is a toy example. There will be a bunch of variables. I experimented with "do.call", but all I got was 1 2 3 Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I still think that do.call might be the key, but I'm not sure. R Version 3-1.3, Windows 7. Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Mathematical and Statistics University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.