Thanks Josh & Duncan! That was very clear and helpful. After going back and
reviewing documentation for "{" and "$" I am realizing that R the pattern in
R documentation is simply to tell you the truth, and not to give much effort
to distinguishing confusable choices. Once again, things that seemed
On 17/09/2011 2:15 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
Hi Andrew,
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:04 AM, andrewH wrote:
> Dear Folks --
> The anonymous poster ("rmailbox") is perfectly correct. I had forgotten you
> could use names in this way. When referring to rows or columns by name
> rather than by nu
Hi Andrew,
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:04 AM, andrewH wrote:
> Dear Folks --
> The anonymous poster ("rmailbox") is perfectly correct. I had forgotten you
> could use names in this way. When referring to rows or columns by name
> rather than by number, I usually use either attach() or the $ oper
Dear Folks --
The anonymous poster ("rmailbox") is perfectly correct. I had forgotten you
could use names in this way. When referring to rows or columns by name
rather than by number, I usually use either attach() or the $ operator,
neither of which works here. If anyone understands why data.df[
Hi,
maybe I did not get the point, but get() does exactly what you want:
whatIwant = 2
nomdeplume = "whatIwant"
get(nomdeplume)
cheers
Am 16.09.2011 16:09, schrieb Timothy Bates:
> On 16 Sep 2011, at 1:49 AM, andrewH wrote:
>>> I'm trying to make a function that takes column names then
>>> usin
On 16 Sep 2011, at 1:49 AM, andrewH wrote:
>> I'm trying to make a function that takes column names then
>> using the variable colName, containing the name of
>> the column, to refer to the column itself
rmail...@justemail.net said
> What am I missing about your inquiry: It seems like x[ , colNam
cat("\n")#6
}
"ugly"
}
- Original message -
From: "andrewH"
To: r-help@r-project.org
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:49:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [R] Referring to an object by a variable containing its name: 6
failures
Dear Folks--
I'm trying
Dear Folks--
I'm trying to make a function that takes the columns I select from a data
frame and then uses a for loop to print some information about each one,
starting with the column name. I succeed in returning the column name, but
nothing else I have tried using the variable colName, containin
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