[R] separate commands by semicolon

[Adrian Dușa]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:28 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:

> The most reliable way to split such lines is with parse(text=x).
> Regular expressions don't do well with context-free grammars.
>

Oh, that's right of course.
> as.character(parse(text = x))
[1] "foo <- \"3;4\""                    "bar <- \"don't ; use semicolons\""

That was simple enough, thanks very much,
Adrian

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