Ingmar Visser wrote: > it's unclear what you want ... > but > get("x")^2 > does not give an error
Neither does get("x^2") if you actually have an object called "x^2": > "x^2"=4.000001 > get("x^2") [1] 4.000001 but that would be a perverse thing to do. 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.