[R] How to take out the content of character string

[baptiste auguie]

Hi,

it's generally considered a bad practice but try this,

eval(parse(text=AA))

library(fortunes)
fortune(106)

HTH,

baptiste

On 10 March 2010 07:46, jq81 <jingqian81 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My question is represented by the following example.
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> For example, I have a character string a, which is defined as
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> AA="list(x=1, y=2)"
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> I want to take out the content of AA by using some function, so that I can
> obtain the following expression automatically.
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> list(x=1, y=2)
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> Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks a lot,
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