Re: [R] typecasting a function from character to double

Dear Phil, The sapply statement made it work. The function indeed needed evaluation before plotting. Many thanks for the useful hint! Lucas -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/typecasting-a-function-from-character-to-double-tp3327555p3327755.html Sent from the R help

[R] typecasting a function from character to double

Hello, I try to plot a number of functions that are given by a textfile. This file looks like this: (1+s) / (1+k) ; (1+(2*s)^2) / (1+k)^2 ; etc etc. I import these functions into R with the 'readLines' command. This creates a table whose elements contain the conditions as character strin