Getting strings recognized as variable names in R

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I\'ve simplified the question per the comment

Answer 1

If you want to use a string as a variable name, you can use assign:

var1="string_name"

assign(var1, c(5,4,5,6,7))

string_name 

[1] 5 4 5 6 7