Others have mentioned assign and get, but generally when the answer to a question is "assign" it means that you are asking the wrong question (see fortune(236)).
This is actually FAQ 7.21, the most useful part of the answer in the FAQ is the last few lines. If you tell us more about what you are actually trying to accomplish then we have a better chance of giving you useful advice that is less likely to lead to future frustration. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Rantony <antony.akk...@ge.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Here i have a variable named "MyVariable" containing particular name > > For eg:- > MyVariable <- "UnitNo" > > Here my requirement is, i need to get "UnitNo" as another variable by > reading "MyVariable" > > i need "UnitNo" as variable name and need to assign some value into that. > > i had tried with as.name(MyVariable ) and as.character(MyVariable) - Its > getting that value, but im unable to assign > something into that variable. > > Could you please help me ? > > - Thank you > Antony > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Create-and-Assign-value-into-a-variable-from-Another-variable-tp4641515.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. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.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.
