[BioC] How can I create a variable with name indicated by argument during function run?

[Michael Lawrence]

.GlobalEnv[[path_name]] <- de_gene_list

I hope you have a good reason for this side effect.

Also, general R questions like these are better suited for e.g.
stackoverflow or R-help.



On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:08 AM, my1stbox <my1stbox at 163.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> How can I create a variable with a name identical to the character value
> of an argument that I passed to the function ? The following lines doesn’t
> work. Do I have to text an expression with a combination of paste0(),
> parse() first, and eventually evaluate it with eval()?
>
> f <-
> function(Argument.to.carry.the.value.that.I.want.to.use.as.name.of.variable.to.be.created){
>
>  as.name
> (Argument.to.carry.the.value.that.I.want.to.use.as.name.of.variable.to.be.created)=my.gene.list
>
> }
> f(the.name)
>
> Bests,
> Allen Chiu
>
> PS: What I really want to do is to create a global variable during the
> function run, like:
>
> de.limma=function(path_name){
>           ……………
>   .GlobalEnv$”as indicated by the path_name argument”=de_gene_list
> }
>
>
>
> 2014-08-20
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