How to use `assign()` or `get()` on specific named column of a dataframe?

Question

Is there a way to assign a value to a specific column within a data frame? e.g.,

dat2 = data.frame(c1 = 101:149, VAR1 = 151:200)    
j = \"dat2[,\"VAR1\"]\"          


        

Answer 1

set2 <- function(x,  val) {
   eval.parent(substitute(x <- val))
 }

> dat2 = data.frame(c1 = 101:150, VAR1 = 151:200)
> set2(dat2[["VAR1"]], 1:50)
> str(dat2)
'data.frame':   50 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ c1  : int  101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 ...
 $ VAR1: int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...