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["Data Analytics Corp." <dataanalytics@earthlink.net>]

Hi,

I have 100 data frames for a project, each data frame beginning with the 
word "data" followed by a word for the data itself.  I'd like to write a 
function to loop through each data frame and apply the describe function 
from the HMISC library.  I created a list using
       x <- as.list(objects(pattern = "data*"))

which returns a list with 100 elements, each of which is the data frame 
name as a character.  Then I did
         lapply(x, describe)

and got garbage.  I think the issue is that x contains character strings 
which a function cannot use as the name of an object.  How do I tell S+ 
to treat each character string in the list x as a data frame name which 
could then be read by describe? 

I'm using s+8.0 if that matters.

Thanks,

Walt Paczkowski