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

An addition to Sacha's answer. If you want to assign a value to an object "abc" using paste():

assign(paste("a", "b", "c", sep = ""), 5)