Why do you need to use the get() command? If you want to access a
column of a known data frame by name:
R fakedata - data.frame(A=1:3, B=letters[8:10], C=runif(3))
R fakedata[A]
A
1 1
2 2
3 3
If you're trying to access a data frame by name, then you do need get,
but can then subset normally.
R myname - fakedata
R get(myname)[A]
A
1 1
2 2
3 3
In other words, either you're using the wrong tool for the job, or you
haven't clearly explained your problem.
Sarah
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Brian Smith bsmith030...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to get at some values from 'data' using the get function. Here
is my code:
class(data)
[1] data.frame
class(data$gender.factor)
[1] factor
head(data$gender.factor)
[1] Male Female Male Female Male Female
Levels: Male Female
xx - get(data$gender.factor)
Error in get(data$gender.factor) :
object 'data$gender.factor' not found
traceback()
2: get(data$gender.factor)
1: get(data$gender.factor)
What should I be doing to read in the values using the get command?
thanks!
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