Perhaps the following? get(call_A)
See ?get for more details. HTH, Jorge.- On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:25 PM, chuck.01 <> 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 > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/call-object-from-character-tp4569686p4569686.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.