Subject: Re: [R] "Executing" a string
From: Jan Goebel (jgoebel@diw.de)
Date: Wed 11 Oct 2000 - 22:51:14 EST
Message-ID: <20001011145114.A1923@diw14093.diw.de>
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Thomas Hoffmann wrote:
> In Matlab or Octave I can evaluate (evalf) the content of
> a string. In R I have looked around in the docs, but have not
> found a way to do something equivalent (which is possible, I think).
>
> Can anybody give me a pointer?
>
May be your looking for somethig like:
> example <- seq(0,5)
> string <- "example"
> as.name(string)
example
> eval(as.name(string))
[1] 0 1 2 3 4 5
Hope this helps
jan
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