R help - Apr 2006 - Referencing variables in a dataframe.

I have a question about how to reference variables in a dataframe.

Normally, after I have read in some Stata data using the following command
all <- read.dta('all.dta')

Whenever I want to use the variable "sat.vr1" in the "all"
data frame,
I do so using

all$sat.vr1

However, I'd like to be able to use the sat.vr1 variable without the
"all$" (as well as all of the other variables of the dataframe).

Is there some way to make a particular dataframe the "active" or
"default" one so that a can do this?

Thanks,

Brian

Here are two ways:

with(iris, Sepal.Length + Sepal.Width)

attach(iris)
Species



On 4/6/06, Brian Quinif <bquinif at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a question about how to reference variables in a dataframe.
>
> Normally, after I have read in some Stata data using the following command
> all <- read.dta('all.dta')
>
> Whenever I want to use the variable "sat.vr1" in the
"all" data frame,
> I do so using
>
> all$sat.vr1
>
> However, I'd like to be able to use the sat.vr1 variable without the
> "all$" (as well as all of the other variables of the dataframe).
>
> Is there some way to make a particular dataframe the "active" or
> "default" one so that a can do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
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