[R] Convert character string to number

[Peter Dalgaard]

Kenn Konstabel wrote:
> another way to do it is using eval and parse:
>
> yyy<-numeric()
> for(i in 1:length(xxx)) yyy[i] <- eval(parse(text=xxx[i]))
>
> or ...
>
> unlist(lapply(as.list(xxx), function(x) eval(parse(text=x))))
>   
>
or even

sapply(parse(text=xxx), eval)

(Beware that this can have unforeseen side effects depending on the 
content of xxx, though.)

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