I think you're looking for
parse(text=paste(letters[1:3], collapse="+"))
--- Jarrod Hadfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I would simply like to coerce a character string into an expression:
> something like:
>
> as.expression(paste(letters[1:3], collapse="+"))
>
> but I can't seem to get rid of the quotes. The only way I can get it
> to work is using as.formula:
>
> as.expression(as.formula(paste("~", paste(letters[1:3], collapse="+"))))
>
> but this requires the expression to have a tilde, which it will not
> always have.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jarrod
>
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