[R] "Executing" a string

[Mark Myatt]

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?
>

Use the eval(parse()) pairing:

        String2Eval <- "A valid R statement"
        eval(parse(text = String2Eval)) 

Hope that does the trick.




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Mark Myatt


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