R help - Aug 2021 - coercion to an object...

Dear members,
                             I think the following question is rudimentary, but
I couldn't find an answer in the Internet.

Suppose there is an object A, and ls() lists it as "A". How do you
convert this character object to the object A. i.e I want a function f such that
class(f("A")) = class(A) (of course, class("A") =
"character") . f should just coerce the character to the object
represented by it.

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
AKSHAY M KULKARNI

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On Sun, 29 Aug 2021, akshay kulkarni writes:
> Dear members,
>                              I think the following question is rudimentary,
but I couldn't find an answer in the Internet.
>
> Suppose there is an object A, and ls() lists it as "A". How do
you convert this character object to the object A. i.e I want a function f such
that class(f("A")) = class(A) (of course, class("A") =
"character") . f should just coerce the character to the object
represented by it.

Perhaps ?get is what you're looking for:

  A <- 42
  get("A")
  ## [1] 42

> Thank you,
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
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