Re: [R] Executing a R-string

2010-01-27 Thread Rolf Turner
On 28/01/2010, at 2:59 AM, Joe Trubisz wrote: Hello... In other languages (e.g. php, perl), you have the ability to create a valid string and execute the string to get the result. For example (in pseudo-R): S-which(m==4) R-exec(S) I know this does not work, but was wondering if there was an

Re: [R] Executing a R-string

2010-01-27 Thread RICHARD M. HEIBERGER
m - c(1,4,2,3,7,5) S - which(m==4) P - parse(text=S) R - eval(P) R Before you do this, see fortune(106) fortune(106) If the answer is parse() you should usually rethink the question. -- Thomas Lumley R-help (February 2005) On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Joe Trubisz jtrub...@mac.com