You seem confused.... the library Uwe is talking about is a function not a string....
These work library(quantmod) library("quantmod") or pkg <- "quantmod" library(pkg) # Doesn't work! library(pkg, character.only = TRUE) # Works Michael On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:59 AM, <ad...@use-r.com> wrote: > I just tried it. > >> library <- "quantmod" >> library > [1] "quantmod" >> typeof(library) > [1] "character" > > So how do I , or anyone , assign a string without " "? > >> library <- quantmod > Error: object 'quantmod' not found > > What about this? > >> library <- c("quantmod") > > Does it do the job? Sorry if it has been asked. I'm still learning R. > >> >> >> On 29.04.2012 09:28, Indrajit Sengupta wrote: >>> You don't need quotes in the library statement, you can just use >>> library(parallel). >> >> Yes, a special (mis-)feature of library(). Since we are trying to teach >> R here, we should provide clean R code. In an ideal world, we would be >> able to say >> >> pkg <- "parallel" >> library(pkg) >> >> doing the same as >> >> library("parallel") >> >> which is unfortunately not possible, because library(pkg) tries a >> package called "pkg". >> >> Best, >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Indrajit >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Uwe Ligges<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> >>> To: ya<xinxi...@163.com> >>> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >>> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:57 PM >>> Subject: Re: [R] "parallel" package >>> >>> >>> >>> On 28.04.2012 20:18, ya wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> Anyone knows Where I can get the "parallel" package? The google results >>>> said this package has been released since R 2.14, but I could not find >>>> a >>>> place to get it. >>>> >>>> I am doing a multiple imputation for missing values, it is really time >>>> consuming. I figured maybe it's more efficient by paralleling my CPU. I >>>> got an intel dual core i5 processor in a Thankpad x201 laptop. And I >>>> have used install.packages ("parallel") in R 2.15 on both linux and >>>> windows xp, no package installed. So maybe this package is not on cran? >>>> Any idea? >>> >>> It is shipped as an R base packaage. Just use >>> >>> library("parallel") >>> >>> Uwe Ligges >>> >>> >>>> Thank you very much. >>>> >>>> ya >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.