Re: [R] remove quotes from the paste output

Bob, >> Does anybody know how to eliminate the double quotes so that I can use >> the >> variable name (generated with the paste function) further in the code... ?noquote should do it. ## > "varName" [1] "varName" > noquote("varName") [1] varName Regards, Mark. -- View this message in contex

Re: [R] remove quotes from the paste output

Hi Bob, You can use the get() function to loopup a variable name. > long.variable.name <- 5 > "long.variable.name" [1] "long.variable.name" > get("long.variable.name") [1] 5 However, I think this is all overkill. Assuming extractModelParameters() came from the MplusAutomation package, and that

[R] remove quotes from the paste output

Hi, I'm generating the name of the variable with paste function and then using that variable name further to get the specific position value from the data.frame, here is the snippet from my code: modelResults <- extractModelParameters("C:/PilotStudy/Mplus_Input/Test", recursive=TRUE) #extract