I see. Thanks! Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11-01-05 4:47 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Suppose I have >> >> x = parse(text = " >> {y=50+50+50#'asfasf' >> } >> ") >> >> now x is an expression with some src attributes. >> >>> x >> expression({y=50+50+50#'asfasf' >> }) >> attr(,"srcfile") >> <text> >> attr(,"wholeSrcref") >> >> {y=50+50+50#'asfasf' >> } >> >> My question is, how can I get my string back (the string passed to >> parse() as the text argument)? > > You can use > > as.character(attr(x, "wholeSrcref")) > > If length(x) > 1, you can get the parts corresponding to each expression > within it as > > for (i in 1:length(x)) { > > print (as.character(attr(x, "srcref")[[i]])) > > } > > but this leaves off comments and whitespace that are not embedded within the > expressions the way your comment is. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > >> >>> as.character(x) >> [1] "{" >> >> as.character() only returns "{". >> >>> as.character(expression({1})) >> [1] "{" >>> as.character(expression("1","2+3")) >> [1] "1" "2+3" >> >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> -- >> Yihui Xie<xieyi...@gmail.com> >> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name >> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University >> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.