Hi R,
A simple question, but don't know the answer...
x="a"
a=5
I need to remove the object "a" by using only x. something like
rm(somefunction(x))...Is this possible?
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How about rm(list=x)? Richard. Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:> Hi R, > > > > A simple question, but don't know the answer... > > > > x="a" > > a=5 > > > > I need to remove the object "a" by using only x. something like rm(somefunction(x))...Is this possible? > > > > Shubha Karanth | Amba Research > > Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 > > Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San Jos? * Singapore * www.ambaresearch.com > > > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.-- Richard D. Pearson richard.pearson at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk School of Computer Science, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pearsonr University of Manchester, Tel: +44 161 275 6178 Oxford Road, Mob: +44 7971 221181 Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6204
> a <- 1 > x <- "a" > rm(list=x) > aError: object "a" not found See ?rm for details. Gabor On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:13:41PM +0530, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:> Hi R, > > > > A simple question, but don't know the answer... > > > > x="a" > > a=5 > > > > I need to remove the object "a" by using only x. something like rm(somefunction(x))...Is this possible? > > > > Shubha Karanth | Amba Research > > Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 > > Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San Jos? * Singapore * www.ambaresearch.com > > > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} >> ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.-- Csardi Gabor <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> UNIL DGM