[R] converting character strings to eval

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Monday 19 July 2004 09:37, Wayne Jones wrote:
> Hi there fellow R-users,
>
> I'm stuck on this seemingly trivial problem.
>
> All I want to coerce a character string into a command.
>
> For example:
>
> x<-rnorm(20)
> y<-rnorm(20)
> str<-"lm(y~x)"
>
> I want to evaluate the "str" command.
>
> I have tried
>
> eval(as.expression(str))

eval(parse(text = str))

seems to work.

Deepayan