[R] How do I get 10^4 to become 10000?

[Patrick Connolly]

Of course, that's as trivial as it gets on the command line, but I
can't work out how to get a column of numbers that are entered as
"10^5" from its 'character' format into a numeric one?

I feel a bit embarrassed asking such a simple question.  Too much
Easter....

Thanks



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