[R] selections using text strings (result of noquote)

[Robert Cunningham]

G'day all,

I am trying to use a string as an argument in a selection but things are
not working as I expect, seems the selection is not seeing the expanded
string and I do not know how to make it. Perhaps the noquote class value
that is returned is the problem.

Here is an example.

> selection #this is my string
[1] "attackprogress$Se=='Toona ciliata [19825: JMM35]'"
> noquote(selection) #if I do this I get a string that if I paste into
[] works fine
[1] attackprogress$Se=='Toona ciliata [19825: JMM35]'
> attackprogress$No[attackprogress$Se=='Toona ciliata [19825: JMM35]']
#this is fine
  [1]  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
0  0  0
 [26]  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
0  0  0
 [51]  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  3  0  0  0  0  0  0
0  0  0
 [76]  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  4  4  3  3  2  1  1
1  4  2
[101]  0  1  2  0  1  1  1  2  3  2  2  3  0  1  1  0  0  0  0  0  3  1
2  4  4
[126]  1  1  1  1  1  0  3  2  1  1  2  1  2  1  2  2  3  0  1  1  1  0
1  0  0
[151]  3  3  1  2  3  3  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  0  1  2  1  3  3  2  1  4
1  2  2
[176]  1  0  0  0  1  2  4  0  3  0  3  2  2  2  1  2  3  2  1  2  2  2
3  4  3
[201]  1  3  1  3  4  1  0  0  0  2  2  4  3  2  4  2  4 10  5  2  3  1
2  1  3
[226]  3  4  4  3  2  2  1  3  3  0  1  1  1  4  3  4  5  5  5  3  2  2
5  1  2
[251]  2  1  1  6  2  5  6  5  2  2  1  2  4  0  1  2  1  1  6  4  5  3
5  4  7
[276]  7  5  7  5  5  4  4  6  1  6  7  5  3  6  1  9  6  3  4  1  2  1
7  3  5
[301]  3  4  5  7  7 10  3 10  5  7  5  5  5  3  1  3  3  2  4  3  1  2
> attackprogress$No[noquote(selection)] #this is not
[1] NA

> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    5.0            
year     2002           
month    04             
day      29             
language R              

TIA.


Cheers,
Robert Cunningham
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