[R] Paste and namespace

[Spencer Graves]

Have you considered:

 > poly1 <- 1
 > get("poly1")
[1] 1
 >

hth.  spencer graves

Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da Rosa wrote:
>  Hi, my doubt is very simple. I'm sure I've seen someone using something
> like this before, but unfortunatelly my searches in the archives were useless.
>  Well, I have some objects called after a name that has a number attached to
> it,
>  varying. Let's say I have:
>  > ls
>    poly1 poly2 poly3 poly4 poly5 poly6 ...
>  
>  I would like to access these objects using a for(), in which I could do
> something like paste("poly",i,sep=''). For i = 4, for instance I get
>  > paste("poly",4,=sep'')
>  [1] "poly8"
>  Which is a string. What command should I use to 'access' the object named
> by this string, ir order to do some useful things, like changing its value?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
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