Hi,
You don't provide a reproducible example, but I suspect what you need is
parse():
> parse(text = "A + B")
expression(A + B)
Sarah
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:55 AM, capy_bara <hettl...@few.vu.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am confused about how to create an expression. I use a package (rsbml)
> which uses expressions and seems to make a difference if there is a quote
> around the expression or not.
>
> For example, package works with expressions such as
>> expression(A + B)
> but not with
>> expression("A + B")
>
> I now have a set of math expressions represented as strings, something like
> this:
>> rhs_eq<- c("0", "A + B", "B * (2+C)")
> and want to make expressions without quotes out of it.
>
> I tried
>> lapply(lapply(rhs_eq, as.symbol), as.expression)
> which only turns the double quotes into single quotes, but does not remove
> the quotes.
> I also played around with as.formula, as.name, quote and enquote, but had no
> success.
>
> Does anyone know about quotes in the expression data type?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hannes
>
>
--
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org
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