[R] referencing values of strings

[Liaw, Andy]

Can you give some hypothetical code on what you want to do?  Does get() do
what you want:

> dog <- "Spot"
> f <- function(x) get(x)
> f("dog")
[1] "Spot"

?

Andy

> From: Apoian, Zack
> 
> Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns 
> the character
> string "x" .  How would I take "x" as an input and return the 
> vector x?
> 
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