how to get value when a variable name is passed as a string

Question

i write this code in R

paste(\"a\",\"b\",\"c\") 

which returns the value \"abc\"

Variable abc has a value

Answer 1

paste("a","b","c") gives "a b c" not "abc"

Anyway, I think you are looking for get():

> abc <- 5
> get("abc")
[1] 5