I am not sure why "Never ever!" Can you please elaborate. What are the negatives about the method
Warm Regards, Heramb M. Gadgil On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de > wrote: > > > On 27.12.2012 08:09, Heramb Gadgil wrote: > >> eval(parse(text=paste0("**cvtest$",lambda.rule))) >> > > No, never ever! > > There is an R idiom made for it: > > cvtest[[lambda.rule]] > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > > > I hope this works. >> >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Thomas Stewart >> <tgs.public.m...@gmail.com>**wrote: >> >> Soyeon- >>> >>> A possible solution: >>> >>> get(lambda.rule,envir=**list2env(cvtest)) >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Soyeon Kim <yunni0...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear my R friends, >>>> >>>> I want to get a number from a list using paste function. >>>> In my example, >>>> lambda.rule <- "lambda.1se" >>>> cvtest is a list (result from cv.glmnet) >>>> and >>>> cvtest$lambda.1se >>>> [1] 1.308973 >>>> >>>> I want to call the value using paste function. >>>> I used get function but there was an error. >>>> test <- get(paste("cvtest$",lambda.**rule, sep="")) >>>> Error in get(paste("cvtest$", lambda.rule, sep = "")) : >>>> object 'cvtest$lambda.1se' not found >>>> >>>> Do you guys know how to solve this issue? >>>> >>>> Thank you so much in advance and merry Christmas! >>>> >>>> Soyeon >>>> >>>> ______________________________**________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>>> http://www.R-project.org/**posting-guide.html<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<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/**posting-guide.html<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<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >> posting-guide.html <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.