[R] Access variables by string

[Don MacQueen]

For your first question, use the get() function

-Don

At 5:18 PM +0100 2/11/10, Philipp Rappold wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I have two probably very easy questions:
>
>(1) Is there a way to access certain variables by their string-based 
>name representation?
>
>Example:
>numbers <- c("one", "two", "three")
>varname <- "numbers"
>print(varname[2])
>
>(2) I need this functionality for a customized na.exclude() function 
>that I am building, which should only exclude rows that have NA in 
>certain columns. Maybe there is already a function which does 
>exactly what I need, so I'd highly appreciate if someone could point 
>me there ;)
>
>My current implementation looks like this:
>
>naexlcude <- function(data, varnames)
>{
>	for(v in varnames){
>		data = subset(data, !is.na(v))
>	}
>
>	data
>}
>
>Best
>Philipp
>
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