R help - Oct 2013 - convert data.frame to parameters

Greetings:

I have a 24 row,  2-column csv file.  The first column is character, with
the names of parameters.  The second column is numeric, containing the
parameter values.

I can produce a 2-column data.frame with  case.study.parameters <-
read.csv(...)

I want to convert the data.frame to 24 parameters having those names and
their associated numeric values.

I've tried using package "ParamHelpers" with no success.  Likely
because it
really isn't intended for that purpose.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Charles Annis, P.E.

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On 07/10/2013 7:56 AM, Charles Annis wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I have a 24 row,  2-column csv file.  The first column is character, with
> the names of parameters.  The second column is numeric, containing the
> parameter values.
>
> I can produce a 2-column data.frame with  case.study.parameters <-
> read.csv(...)
>
> I want to convert the data.frame to 24 parameters having those names and
> their associated numeric values.
>
> I've tried using package "ParamHelpers" with no success. 
Likely because it
> really isn't intended for that purpose.
>
> Can anyone help?
You say you want "parameters", but that's not an R type.  So
here's one
way, but it might not be what you're looking for.

df <- data.frame(names=letters, values=1:26)
parameters <- df$values
names(parameters) <- df$names

Duncan Murdoch