Re: [R] Using a string as a variable name - revisited

I meant to add that I'm guessing from this: "What it seems to be doing is converting the text "Aulacoseira_islandica" to a number (25, for some reason" is that foo is a factor, but we have no way of knowing without a reproducible example. Euan Reavie wrote: I would like to revisit a proble

Re: [R] Using a string as a variable name - revisited

PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Euan Reavie wrote: I would like to revisit a problem that was discussed previously (see quoted discussion below). I am trying to do the same thing, us