Re: [R] "Executing" a string

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Subject: Re: [R] "Executing" a string
From: Paul Gilbert (pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca)
Date: Thu 12 Oct 2000 - 00:16:14 EST 

Message-ID: <39E4762E.19E2B145@bank-banque-canada.ca>

>> Can anybody give me a pointer?

> eval(parse(text="2+2"))
>[1] 4

>Also check out substitute(), as.name() et al. for other methods of
>manipulating expressions and function calls

You should also consider do.call() if the string is actually the name of
a function.

Paul Gilbert

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