>From what I read, you want something like this:
myfunction<-function(dataset,arg1,arg2) { func = match.fun(arg2) argument = dataset[, match(paste(arg1,"_test", sep=""), names(dataset))] result=func(argument) return(result) } On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Manta <mantin...@libero.it> wrote: > > Thaks for your quick reply Bert, although I doubt it works. > > The reason is that the names of the objects of the dataset, all end with the > sufix '_test' and therefore I need to attach/paste/glue this suffix to the > 'arg2' of the function. Any other idea? > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Pasting-function-arguments-and-strings-tp2993905p2993976.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.