I figured as much. Thank you greatly.
plangfelder wrote > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:25 PM, chuck.01 <CharlieTheBrown77@> > 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@ 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. > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/call-object-from-character-tp4569686p4569801.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.