R's As.Name() in SAS

[Nargess]

Hi,

does anyone who knows both R and SAS have an idea what is the equivalent of As.Name() function in R? What As.Name() does is using a string value of one variable as another variable name.

Thanks,

Nargess

[Reeza]

Depends on how you were planning to use it.

VValueX may be one option

or Rename could be another.

[Rick_SAS]

The SAS procedure that is closest to R is SAS/IML. In SAS/IML, you can use the VALUE and VALSET functions to get or assign values to matrices whose name is given by a string. See the article   Indirect assignment: How to create and use matrices named x1, x2,…, xn - The DO Loop

[LinusH]

And if we are "outside" IML I come to think of SAS File functions and/or macro programming.