Michael is right. I tried and found get() is required for my case.
Hua
On Mar 29, 2012, at 13:50, "R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weyla...@gmail.com>"<michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, but if the OP wants to assign the values to "ineed" (which I think is
> the request), he'll need get()
>
> Michael
>
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:50 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:13 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps something like
>>
>>>> alldata = data(package="MASS")
>>>> arg = alldata$results[70,3]
>>>> ineed <- data(arg, package="MASS")
>>>
>>> get(data(list = arg))
>>
>> I think the get() is superfluous:
>>
>>> rm(phones)
>>> exists("phones")
>> [1] FALSE
>>> data(list=arg, package="MASS")
>>
>>> exists("phones")
>> [1] TRUE
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2012/3/29 Hua Liang <dickliang...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to use datasets within R with a loaded package, for example,
>>>> MASS. When I use the dataset phones, it can be done using data(phones,
>>>> package=”MASS”). I am thinking about an alternative but more flexible way
>>>> to load this dataset. Because phones is the
>>>> 70th dataset in this package, I wrote the following codes. Unfortunately
>>>> they don’t work. It will be greatly appreciated if someone can help me
>>>> figure out.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
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