Yes, you can use: eval(parse(text=c)) On the other hand I would not recommend to use c as a variable name as it is the name of a very important function in the R language to aggregate data.
HTH, Samuel -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Kim Lillesøe Sent: 02 August 2011 13:22 To: r-help@R-project.org Subject: [R] execute r-code stored in a string variable Dear all I have a simple R question. How do I execute R-code stored in a variable? E.g if I have a variable which contains some R-code: c = "reg <- lm(sales$sales~sales$price)" Is it possible to execute c E.g like Exec(c) I hope someone can help. Thank you Kim Lillesøe [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6275 (20110707) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6275 (20110707) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ______________________________________________ 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.