Re: [R] calling combinations of variable names

2009-09-07 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, It's not enough to create a string with your instructions, it also needs to be evaluated as such. If you really wanted to evaluate your string, you'd need something like, a <- b <- cc <- 1 # dummy example eval(parse(text = "cbind(a, b, cc)")) #library(fortunes) #fortune("parse") but fortune

[R] calling combinations of variable names

2009-09-07 Thread Helter Two
R-2.9.1, Windows7 Dear list, I have a question to you that seems very simple to me, but I just can't figure it out. I have a dataframe called "ratings" which contains the following variables: evalR1, evalR2, evalR3, evalR4, scoreR1, scoreR2, scoreR3, scoreR4, opinionR1, opinionR2, opinionR3, opin