[R] evaluate a string

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Joerg Maeder wrote:

> i want to execute different commands that are saved in strings (eg: "d
> <- 4+7" and some more complicated things). How can i execute/evaluate
> them. I know i could save them to a temp-file a read this with source.
> But is there a way without a file in the middle?
> I know also the 'assign' command but I think it would only the simply
> cases.

eval(parse(text=string))


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