Does get(DV) do what you want? -Don
At 4:35 PM -0400 4/27/07, Bobby Prill wrote: >Please help me evaluate a "dynamic variable" as show in the code >snippet below. > ># regular variable >a = c(1,2,3,4) > ># dynamic variable set at runtime >DV = "a" > >eval(DV) >--> a > >eval(eval(DV)) >--> a > ># what I want >something_goes_here(DV) >--> 1,2,3,4 > >Can someone teach me how to do this? Thanks very much. > >- Bobby > >______________________________________________ >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. -- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.
