Re: [R] Convert text string to object pointer

2008-08-15 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
See the Object class in the R.oo package. /Henrik On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Abiel Reinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to use a text string to get a reference to an object whose name > is the text string. I have seen people using get() for this purpose, but as > far as I can

Re: [R] Convert text string to object pointer

2008-08-15 Thread caddr
Try this: x <- 1 z <- as.name ("x") eval (call ("<-", z, call ("attr<-", z, "foo", "bar"))) x [1] 1 attr(,"foo") [1] "bar" On 15 авг, 06:35, "Abiel Reinhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to use a text string to get a reference to an object whose name > is the text string. I have seen