This approach is fraught with dangers.
I recommend that you put all of those data frames into a list and have your
function accept the list and the name and use the list indexing operator
mylist[[DFName]] to refer to it. Having functions that go fishing around in the
global environment will be hard to maintain at best, and buggy at worst.
That said, I usually work with all of my data frames combined as one and use
the plyr, dplyr, or data.table packages to apply my algorithms to each group of
rows identified by a character or factor column.
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On January 28, 2015 5:37:34 PM PST, Alan Yong <alany...@caltech.edu> wrote:
>Dear R-help,
>I have df.1001 as a data frame with rows & columns of values.
>
>I also have other data frames named similarly, i.e., df.*.
>
>I used DFName from:
>
>DFName <- ls(pattern = glob2rx("df.*"))[1]
>
>& would like to pass on DFName to another function, like:
>
>length(DFName[, 1])
>
>however, when I run:
>
>> length(DFName[, 1])
>Error in DFName[, 1] : incorrect number of dimensions
>
>and
>
>length(df.1001[, 1])
>[1] 104
>
>do not provide the same expected answer.
>
>How can I successfully pass the data frame name of df.1001 as a
>variable named DFName in a function?
>
>Thanks,
>Alan
>
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