Let's say we have one or more environments and variables in them. My question is how we access the values of these variables, parametrically. rm(list = ls()) env1 <- new.env() env1$var1 <- "value1" env2 <- new.env() env2$var2 <- "value2" env <- ls.str(mode="environment") # We get the environments var <- ls.str(eval(parse(text = env[1])))# We get the variables of an environment eval(var[1]) # We fail to get the value of a variable Thank you all, in advance