[R] evaluate String

[R. Michael Weylandt]

eval(parse(text = STRING))

but you often don't need to do this. A somewhat canonical quote in the R-world:

If the answer is parse() you should usually rethink the question.
-- Thomas Lumley, R-help (February 2005)

Michael

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Lucas <lpchaparrovio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello to everyone.
>
> In MATLAB you can find a function that executes a text string.
> I have not find it in R.
> Does anyone knows a similiar function in R, i think a valuable tool.
> Thank you.
>
> Lucas.
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