Ingmar Visser wrote:
> it's unclear what you want ...
> but
> get("x")^2
> does not give an error
Neither does get("x^2") if you actually have an object called "x^2":
> "x^2"=4.000001
> get("x^2")
[1] 4.000001
but that would be a perverse thing to do.
Barry