Yes. But you should be careful. "source" is the best way, especially if you put the symbols in a dedicated environment instead of the global environment to avoid your program getting stomped on by your input file.
On October 3, 2019 11:58:51 PM PDT, April Ettington <apriletting...@gmail.com> wrote: >Let's say I am parsing a file with a list of parameters followed by an >equal sign, and their corresponding values, eg: > >color=green >shape=circle > >and I want to use this information to create a variable called color >with >the value 'green' and a variable shape with the value 'circle'. >However, I >also want my code to be able to do this *when it doesn't know up front >what >the parameter names will be. *So, if the file also included "age=7", >it >should still make a variable called age with the value '7', even though >'age' doesn't specifically appear anywhere in my code. Is there a way >to >do this? > >Thank you, >April > > [[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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.
