You should also look at fortune(106) and think about possible other solutions to your overall objective.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Huesing > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 12:17 AM > To: Peter Langfelder > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Read code from character string > > Peter Langfelder <peter.langfel...@gmail.com> [Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at > 09:38:45PM CEST]: > > eval(parse(text="print(9**2)")) > > cheers, I overlooked the text option. > > > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Johannes Huesing > > <johan...@huesing.name> wrote: > > > Dear expRts, > > > I have a character string, say a <- "print(9**2)". How do I execute > > > the contents of the string, parsed as R code? Do I have to open a > > > connection and use cat(a), and parse it at the other end? > > -- > Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about > science. > One gets such wholesale returns of > conjecture > mailto:johan...@huesing.name from such a trifling investment of fact. > http://derwisch.wikidot.com (Mark Twain, "Life on the > Mississippi") > > ______________________________________________ > 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.