[R] unevaluated expression
    Duncan Murdoch 
    murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
       
    Thu Oct 12 16:25:46 CEST 2006
    
    
  
On 10/12/2006 10:03 AM, johan Faux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> x<- "something(a+b) + c"
> 
> is there any function F such that 
> 
> F(x)  gives me the unevaluated value of x, i.e. something(a+b)+c
> 
> I would appreciate any help on this
parse(text=x) or parse(text=x)[[1]], depending whether you want an 
"expression" containing that expression, or the "call" that it actually 
corresponds to.
quote(something(a+b) + c)
would get you directly to the latter.
Duncan Murdoch
    
    
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