Access variable value where the name of variable is stored in a string

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Similar questions have been raised for other languages: C, sql, java, etc.

But I'm trying to do this in R.

I have:

ret_series <- c(1, 2, 3)
x <- "ret_series"

How do I get (1, 2, 3) by calling some function / manipulation on x, without direct mentioning of ret_series?

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Note that some of the examples above wouldn't work for a data.frame.

For instance, given

x <- data.frame(a=seq(1,5))

get("x$a") would not give you x$a.

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