[R] "Executing" a string

[Jan Goebel]

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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