R help - Jan 2010 - select one row from data-frame by name, indirectly (as string)

Hello,

say I have a dataframe   x
and it contains rows  like "ch_01", "ch_02" and so on.

How can I select those channels iundirectly, by name?

I tried to select the data with get() but get() seems only to work
on simple variables?

Or how to do it?

I need something like that:


name1 <- "ch_01"
name2 <- "ch_02"

selected <- <function>( x, name1)


Any ideas?

OK, now it works... just using [ and ]  or [[ and ]] works.
I thought have tried it before... why does it workj now and not before?

hmhh


sorry for the traffic

On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Oliver wrote:
>
> OK, now it works... just using [ and ]  or [[ and ]] works.
> I thought have tried it before... why does it workj now and not  
> before?
Provide your console session and someone can tell you. Failing that,  
you are asking us to read your mind.
>

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT