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2004 Sep 01
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coercing a string naming to a variable name and return value
...aste. The problem is following: In a data frame, there are 12 columns whose title vary only by a digit, all other part being equal. I would like to compute a operation on a subset these variables and parse them in turn. the data frame "basin.param" contains columns called ratio1, ratio2, ratio3... in each of these ratios I want to retain only values above 0. This could be put like this crit<- which(basin.param$ratio1 > 0) basin.param$ratio1[crit] + basin.param$val[crit] OK, so what if I want to increment from ratio1 to ratio3 automatically and return the value of the variable repr...