You probably want:
str <- "GO:0008150"
ifunc <- function(str){
allBP <- GOBPOFFSPRINGS[[str]]
return(allBP)
}
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Paul Evans<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I work with bio-conductor, but this is probably a basic R question.
>
> I want to emulate the GOBPOFFSPRING$"GO:0008150" command:
>
>
>> allBP <- GOBPOFFSPRING$"GO:0008150"
>> class(allBP)
> [1] "character"
>> length(allBP)
> [1] 16066
>>
>
> I want to create a function so that I can execute the command by passing as a
> parameter the portion in quotes in the above command (""GO:0008150"). So my
> current function looks like:
>
>> str <- "GO:0008150"
>> ifunc <- function(str){
> + allBP <- paste('GOBPOFFSPRING$',str,sep='')
> + return(allBP)
> + }
>> x <- ifunc(str)
>> class(x)
> [1] "character"
>> length(x)
> [1] 1
>>
>
> But this just returns a string. How do I get the command to execute?
>
> thanks!
>
>
>
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