Hi, Suppose I have
x = parse(text = " {y=50+50+50#'asfasf' } ") now x is an expression with some src attributes. > x expression({y=50+50+50#'asfasf' }) attr(,"srcfile") <text> attr(,"wholeSrcref") {y=50+50+50#'asfasf' } My question is, how can I get my string back (the string passed to parse() as the text argument)? > as.character(x) [1] "{" as.character() only returns "{". > as.character(expression({1})) [1] "{" > as.character(expression("1","2+3")) [1] "1" "2+3" Thanks a lot! Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA ______________________________________________ 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.