[R] coercion to an object...

[Enrico Schumann]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2021, akshay kulkarni writes:

> Dear members,
>                              I think the following question is rudimentary, but I couldn't find an answer in the Internet.
>
> Suppose there is an object A, and ls() lists it as "A". How do you convert this character object to the object A. i.e I want a function f such that class(f("A")) = class(A) (of course, class("A") = "character") . f should just coerce the character to the object represented by it.


Perhaps ?get is what you're looking for:

  A <- 42
  get("A")
  ## [1] 42


> Thank you,
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>

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