See ?get
However, it sounds like you might look at storing your data.frames in an
object of class "list". Then you can do things like:
alist <- list(df1 = data.frame(a = 1:10, b = 2:11), df2 = data.frame(a =
2:100, b = 3:101))
lapply(alist, summary)
If you wrote your own function to do things to data.frames, you could
use lapply with your own function. It's a pretty powerful way of doing
a lot with a few lines of code, and you don't have to worry about how
many objects there are, what they are called, or using 'get', etc.
Lo, Ken wrote:
Hi all,
I know this is an idiotic question, but I am trying to iterate through a
list of data.frame using ls (I have named the data frames in a way that
lets me subset them with ls(pattern="test", for example). But ls
returns a character vector. How to I refer to the data frames by their
names in the list instead of the actual string?
Thanks a bunch.
Ken
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