Don't know what `population` is, but a simple assignment MVAR <- population
may provide what you need. Note, no c(). For example, > foo <- rnorm > foo(3) [1] -0.08093862 -0.87827617 1.52826914 /Henrik On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Amoy Yang via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > There is a %LET statement in SAS: %let MVAR=population; Thus, MVAR can be > used through entire program. > In R, I tried MAVR<-c("population"). The problem is that MAVR comes with > double quote "...." that I don't need. But MVAR<-c(population) did NOT work > out. Any way that double quote can be removed as done in SAS when creating > macro_var? > Thanks in advance for helps! > Amoy > > > [[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.