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2010 Apr 01
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Using a string as a variable name - revisited
...ing a
string to indicate a column with the same name. I am making "foo" a
string taken from a list of names. It matches the row where "item" =
5, and picks the corresponding "taxon"
> foo <- list$taxon[match(5,list$item)]
Let's say this returns foo as "Aulacoseira_islandica". I have another
matrix "counts" with column headers corresponding to the taxon list.
But, when I try to access the data in the Aulacoseira_islandica
column, it instead uses the data from another column. For instance...
> columndata <- counts[[foo]]
...returns the data from t...