Or dat[,c1]
-Don At 8:49 AM +1300 11/13/07, Rolf Turner wrote: >On 13/11/2007, at 8:42 AM, Bernd Jagla wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I would like to refer to a column in a data frame using a variable. >> How >> would I do this? >> >> >> >> Something like: >> >> >> >> c1<-"column1" >> >> dat${c1} >> >> >> >> where names(dat) includes 'column1' > > Use dat[[c1]]. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > >###################################################################### >Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA 925-423-1062 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.