"Deepayan Sarkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> consider this:
>
> --------------
>
> estr <- c("2^4", "alpha[1]")
> eexp <- expression(2^4, alpha[1])
>
>
> ## Is it possible to get 'eexp' starting from 'estr'? The closest I could
> ## get was:
>
> do.call(expression, lapply(estr, as.name))
>
> ## but it is not quite the same; e.g. the following behave differently:
Er, how about
> estr <- c("2^4", "alpha[1]")
> parse(text=estr)
expression(2^4, alpha[1])
or (brain teaser alert!)
> parse(text=deparse(parse(text=estr)))[[1]]
expression(2^4, alpha[1])
which is _not_ quite the same thing.
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