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I want to write a function that get 2 strings y and z and does the following R command. temp<-qq1[qq1$z==y,] for example if it get y="AMI" and z="PrimaryConditionGroup" It should do the following temp<-qq1[qq1$PrimaryConditionGroup=="AMI",] I could do it by the following function that is ugly and I wonder if there is an easier way to do it espacielly when temp is not the final result that I want (so I practically do not have temp<<-temp b...