On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:26 PM, mtb...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi David, > > I would like to have two objects, one containing the values in a column and > the other containing the column's name.
You have not addressed the question ... why? Where are you going with this? > Of course, that's easy to do manually, but I don't want to have to type out > the name of the column more than once (thus, below, I have typed it once in > quotes, and I am trying to find a programatic way to create the other object, > without typing the column name again). I would think that this is be best way to proceed: x <- cars[ , "dist", drop=FALSE] Now "x" is a data.frame (and inherits from the list-class) and names(x) will return "dist" and the usual access methods would work. -- David. > > Thank you for your help. > > Mark Na > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:06 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:36 PM, mtb...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello R-helpers, > > > > I have run the following lines of code: > > > > x<-"cars$dist" > > y<-noquote(x) > > > > > > Now y is a string containing the characters "cars$dist" > > > > My question....is there an R function (or combination of functions) that I > > can apply to y that will cause y to contain the numbers in cars$dist? Even > > better, can I do it without using noquote()? > > What is the goal of this effort? > > -- > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.
