[R] How to properly use a generated test string as a name?

[Mark Knecht]

Title asks it all.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

a = 1:5
b1 = 2:6
Z = data.frame(a,b1)
Z

Z$b1

count = 1

MyName = paste("b",count,sep="")
MyName

Z$MyName

N = as.name(MyName)

Z$N