Hi, Wu Gong and Jim Holtman gave you options that should work, but I suspect there is a way to circumvent the entire issue if we knew more about your context and goals. Of course pasting together calls and then evaluating them is always an option, but there may be a simpler way. This is all summarized nicely:
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Cheers, Josh On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:53 AM, lord12 <trexi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > temp = "~aparch(" > temp1 = paste(temp,1, sep = "") > temp2 = paste(temp1,1, sep = ",") > temp3 = paste(temp2, ")",sep = "") > > temp 3 is a character but I want to convert to formula object. How do I do > this? > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-convert-string-to-object-tp2999281p2999281.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.