eval(parse(text="print(9**2)")) On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Johannes Huesing <johannes at huesing.name> wrote: > Dear expRts, > I have a character string, say a <- "print(9**2)". How do I execute > the contents of the string, parsed as R code? Do I have to open a > connection and use cat(a), and parse it at the other end?