Re: [R] Convert text into a variable name

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Xing Yuan > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:37 PM > To: Simon Blomberg > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Convert text into a variable name > > Thanks for th

Re: [R] Convert text into a variable name

Thanks for the reply, Simon! I just want to name a object as the text string. So I have "AGE" then how can I do somecommand("AGE") = 39 then I should have AGE = 39 in my data set. Joe On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Simon Blomberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > ?assign > > On Thu, 2008-11-0

Re: [R] Convert text into a variable name

?assign On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 00:03 -0500, Xing Yuan wrote: > Hello R users, > > Does anybody know what command I should use to convert the text string "AGE" > to be variable name AGE so I can assign value to it > e.g. AGE = 39? > > Thank you very much! > > Joe > > [[alternative HTML ver