[R] "Executing" a string

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Thomas Hoffmann <hoffmann at ehmgs2.et.tu-dresden.de> writes:

> 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?

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

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

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