Alberto Monteiro wrote: > This must be a stupid question, but is there any "extension" of get? > > For example: > x <- 10 > get("x") # gives me 10 > get("x^2") # gives me an error
'get' really only gets R objects - you want to evaluate an expression - like this: > x=2 > eval(parse(text="x^2")) [1] 4 Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.