On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:36 PM, mtb...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello R-helpers, > > I have run the following lines of code: > > x<-"cars$dist" > y<-noquote(x) > > > Now y is a string containing the characters "cars$dist" > > My question....is there an R function (or combination of functions) that I > can apply to y that will cause y to contain the numbers in cars$dist? Even > better, can I do it without using noquote()?
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