It really might help to have a minimum working example Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example and/or http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Reproducibility.html
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: chenme...@hotmail.com > Sent: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:08:45 +0000 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Turn character /string as variable/column name in summarize > in dplyr > > Hi all, > > > Trying to turn string in to variable in dplyr , it R interprets it as > strings rather than column name in the data. > > Any ideas? > > > shock5 =paste0(shocksName[5],"fit") > print(shock5) > > x<-group_by(plotdata,grp) %>% summarize( > Actuals=sum(weight*response/sum(weight)), > ... > ... > # > assign(shocksName[4],sum(weight*as.name(paste(shocksName[4],"fit"))/sum(weight))), > assign(shocksName[5],sum(weight*(as.environment(shock5)) > /sum(weight))) > ) > > > Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > > [[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. ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! ______________________________________________ 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.
