> On Sep 17, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Adrian Dușa <dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro> wrote: > > There is one minor problem with parse(): if any of the individual commands > has an error, the entire text will be parsed in a single error. > > For example, in a normal R console: > >> print(2); ls( > [1] 2 > + > > So first print(2) is executed, and only after the console expects the user > to continue the command from ls( > Parsing the same text: > >> parse(text = "print(2); ls(") > Error in parse(text = "print(2); ls(") : > <text>:2:0: unexpected end of input > 1: print(2); ls( > ^ > > What I would need is something to separate the two commands, irrespective > of their syntactical correctness: > > [1] "print(2)" "ls(" > > I hope this explains the situation,
Not entirely clear. If you were intending to just get character output then you could just use: strsplit(txt, ";") If you wanted parsing to an R expression to occur you could pass through sapply and get a full accounting of the syntactic deficit using `try`: sapply(strsplit( "print(2); ls(" , ";")[[1]] , function(t) {try(parse(text=t))}) Error in parse(text = t) : <text>:2:0: unexpected end of input 1: ls( ^ expression(`print(2)` = print(2), ` ls(` = "Error in parse(text = t) : <text>:2:0: unexpected end of input\n1: ls(\n ^\n") > Adrian > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Adrian Dușa <dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:28 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The most reliable way to split such lines is with parse(text=x). >>> Regular expressions don't do well with context-free grammars. >>> >> >> Oh, that's right of course. >>> as.character(parse(text = x)) >> [1] "foo <- \"3;4\"" "bar <- \"don't ; use semicolons\"" >> >> That was simple enough, thanks very much, >> Adrian >> >> -- >> Adrian Dusa >> University of Bucharest >> Romanian Social Data Archive >> Soseaua Panduri nr.90 >> 050663 Bucharest sector 5 >> Romania >> > > > > -- > Adrian Dusa > University of Bucharest > Romanian Social Data Archive > Soseaua Panduri nr.90 > 050663 Bucharest sector 5 > Romania > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.