Hi thank you very much for your useful answers! In this case I solved it with Sarah's suggestion
tab[tab[[name]] == v,] that works fine Greetings Christof Am 05-01-2012 16:51, schrieb Christof Kluß: > Hi > > I want to do something like > > a <- c(10,20,15,43,76,41,25,46) > tab <- data.frame(a) > > name <- "a" > > for (v in unique(tab[[name]])) { > r <- subset(tab, name==v) # this does not work > ... > } > > i.e. a "string" on the left side of the select expression (subset). How > could I solve this? > > thx > Christof > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.