[R] using get and paste in a loop to return objects for object names listed a strings

I am trying to create a heap of boxplots, by looping though a series of factors and variables in a large data.frame suing paste to constrcut the facto and response names from the colnames I thought I could do this using get() however it is not working what am I doing wrong? thanks Nevil Amos

Re: [R] using get and paste in a loop to return objects for object names listed a strings

Nevil Amos wrote: I am trying to create a heap of boxplots, by looping though a series of factors and variables in a large data.frame suing paste to constrcut the facto and response names from the colnames I thought I could do this using get() however it is not working what am I doing wrong?

Re: [R] using get and paste in a loop to return objects for object names listed a strings

Thanks for that, the package looks very useful. It gave me the answer in a roundabout way - reminded me I needed to sue attach() so that the get () was only dealing with the objects in data.frame, rather than using the data.frame$factorname I therefore managed to sort a work around, but will