Thank you Michael, Sarah and Robin for the answers to my original question.
Michael you asked:"But this is rarely a good idea....perhaps you could say a
little more
about your overall goal and we could direct you to a more "R"-ish solution? "
I realise eval (known as execute in one of my other languages) is not a good
idea. The background to my question is as follows:
Using rcom & rscproxy, I can deploy R as a COM server inside a C# or VB SOAP
Web Service. Any methods that I write in the web service, will need input (or
arguments) of unknown length or type etc.
Say, (trivial example) I wanted R to give me the mean, median of c(1,2,3,4,5),
I can pass c(1,2,3,4,5) as the argument, have R eval it & return the results.
Do I make sense?
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