for my info, why is this rarely a good idea? Is that the case for this particular example , or is eval(paste()) generally rarely a good idea?
--Peter Op 18-1-2012 22:22, R. Michael Weylandt schreef:
eval(parse(text = a)) But this is rarely a good idea....perhaps you could say a little more about your overall goal and we could direct you to a more "R"-ish solution? library(fortunes) fortune("rethink") Michael On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Ajay Askoolum<aa2e...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:Given a<-"c(1,2,3,4,5)" How can I evaluate the variable a to return a (numeric) vector comprising of 1,2,3,4,5? Thanks. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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