[R] "put()" like "get()"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 4 May 2004 wwsprague at ucdavis.edu wrote:

> Is there a function that takes a string and creates and assigns a 
                                                          ^^^^^^
> variable with that name?  Could someone point me in the right direction?

?assign

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