[R] Executable expressions

[Sarah Goslee]

> mytext <- "c(1,2,3,4,5)"
> a <- eval(parse(text=mytext))
> a
[1] 1 2 3 4 5

will do this, if there's no better way to accomplish your actual goal.

Sarah

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Ajay Askoolum <aa2e72e at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Given
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> a<-"c(1,2,3,4,5)"
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> How can  I evaluate the variable a to return a (numeric) vector comprising of 1,2,3,4,5? Thanks.
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