On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, John C Nash <nas...@uottawa.ca> wrote: > Not paying close attention to detail, I entered the equivalent of > > pstr<-c("b1=200", "b2=50", "b3=0.3") > > when what I wanted was > > pnum<-c(b1=200, b2=50, b3=0.3) > > There was a list thread in 2010 that shows how to deal with un-named vectors, > but the same > lapply solution doesn't seem to work here i.e., > > pnum<-lapply(pstr, as.numeric) > > or similar vapply version. The names and = signs seem to mess things up. > > This is clearly not critical, but it would be nice to know an appropriate > transformation.
Here's one: split = sapply(strsplit(pstr, split = "="), I); pnum = as.numeric(split[2, ]); names(pnum) = split[1, ]; > pnum b1 b2 b3 200.0 50.0 0.3 HTH Peter ______________________________________________ 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.