Select list element programmatically using name stored as string [duplicate]

Answer 1

$ does exact and partial match, myList$name is equivalent to

`$`(myList, name)

As @Frank pointed out, the second argument name won't be evaluated, but be treated as a literal character string. Try ?`$`and see the document.

In your example. myList$name will try to look for name element in myList

That is why you need myList[[name]]

Answer 2

I think you want something like this:

for (name in names(myList)) {
   print(myList[[name]]) 
}