[R] Can you turn a string into a (working) symbol?

[andrewH]

Ah!  Excellent! That will be most useful.  And sorry about the typo. 

I found another function in a different discussion that also seems to work,
at least in most cases I have tried.  I do not at all understand the
difference between the two.
doppel <- function(x) {eval(parse(text=x))

However, neither one seems to work on the left hand side of a "<-", a "<<-", 
or an "=".

Again, my thanks.--andrewH



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