> Really I'd like the call to list() to behave as though the text had > been entered directly so that you get.... > > > list(1:2, 3:4, 5:6) > [[1]] > [1] 1 2 > > [[2]] > [1] 3 4 > > [[3]] > [1] 5 6 >
> eval(parse(text=paste("list(",to.convert,")",sep=""))) [[1]] [1] 1 2 [[2]] [1] 3 4 [[3]] [1] 5 6 [[4]] [1] 7 8 [[5]] [1] 9 10 [[6]] [1] 11 12 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.