Dear Tsunhin,
Take a look at ?get
HTH,
Jorge
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:11 AM, tsunhin wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm a newbie in R.
> I have a 45x2x2x8 design.
> A dataframe stores the metadata of trials. And each trial has its own
> data file: I used "read.table" to import every trial into R as a
> dataframe (variable).
>
> Now I dynamically ask R to retrieve trials that fit certain selection
> criteria, so I use "subset", e.g.
> tmptrialinfo <- subset(trialinfo, (Subject==24 & Filename=="v2msa8"))
>
> The name of the dataframe / variable of an individual trial can be
> obtained using:
> paste("t",tmptrialinfo[1,2],tmptrialinfo[1,16],".gz",sep="")
> Then I get a string:
> "t24v2msa8.gz"
> which is of the exact same name of the dataframe / variable of that
> trial, which is:
> t24v2msa8.gz
>
> Can somebody tell me how can I change that string (obtained from
> "paste()" above) to be a usable / manipulable variable name, so that I
> can do something, such as:
> (1)
> tmptrial <- trialcompute(trialextract(
> paste("t",tmptrialinfo[1,2],tmptrialinfo[1,16],".gz",sep="")
> ,tmptrialinfo[1,32],secs,sdm),secs,binsize)
> instead of hardcoding:
> (2)
> tmptrial <-
> trialcompute(trialextract(t24v2msa8.gz,tmptrialinfo[1,32],secs,sdm),secs,binsize)
>
> Currently, 1) doesn't work...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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