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> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of mtb...@gmail.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:27 PM
> To: David Winsemius; r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] How to convert a string to the column it represents in
> a dataframe, with a reproducible example
>
> Hi David,
>
> I would like to have two objects, one containing the values in a column
> and
> the other containing the column's name.
>
> Of course, that's easy to do manually, but I don't want to have to type
> out
> the name of the column more than once (thus, below, I have typed it
> once in
> quotes, and I am trying to find a programatic way to create the other
> object, without typing the column name again).
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Mark Na
>
Something like this
eval(parse(text=y))
could be what you want. But even if it is, I am not sure it is what you should
want. Without more context, it is hard to say.
Hope this is at least somewhat helpful,
Dan
Daniel J. Nordlund
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Planning, Performance, and Accountability
Research and Data Analysis Division
Olympia, WA 98504-5204
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