This does not use an apply: unlist(mget(thels, .GlobalEnv))
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Carl Witthoft<c...@witthoft.com> wrote: > Let's say I have, for some reason, a bunch of scalars (i.e. single-valued > variables) and I want to merge them all into a single vector of values. Can > someone recommend a better function, or simpler way, to do so than the > following? > > Suppose my scalars' names are foo1, foo2, foo3, foo1high, foo2high, foo3lo2, > etc. Then I can do: > > > >>ls(pat='foo')->thels > > >>mapply(function(x) eval(as.name(thels[x])),seq(1:length(thels)))->vecfoo > > > I was hoping for some way to avoid creating a function and an *apply call. > Conceptually, eval(as.name(c(thels))) which of course doesn't work. > > thanks > Carl > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
