On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:25 PM, chuck.01 <charliethebrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let say I have an object (I hope my terminology is correct) a > a <- 12 >> a > [1] 12 > > And "a" has been assigned the number 12, or whatever > And lets say I have a character "call_A" > call_A <- "a" >>call_A > [1] "a" > > What is the function "F" that allows this to happen: >> F( call_A ) > [1] 12
Use get: > a = 12 > get("a") [1] 12 HTH, Peter ______________________________________________ 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.