This comes from bolting on srcrefs: as.character() was used for
srcrefs, but *not* for coercion (as documented), and quote(myName) was
coerced to NULL.
The simplest way out is to use text <- as.character(text) early on.
Maybe coerceVector should handle symbols, though.
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Wil
Calling parse(text=quote(name)) or text=as.name("name")
makes parse() prompt for input from the command line
and then it returns a parse of the initial characters
of 'name' (depending on how many characters were typed
at the prompt). E.g.,
> parse(text=quote(myName))
?1/3
expression(myN
