Yes, the assign command goes a little way toward what what I was hoping for.
But it requires a different syntax, and it does not in general let you use
quoted expressions that you could use with other assignment operators. For
instance,
> DD <- 1:3
> assign("DD[2]", 5)
> DD
[1] 1 2 3
So I am still looking for a function that produces an output that is fully
equivalent to the string without quotation marks. Or for a definite
statement that no such function can exist.
Thanks so much for your attention to this problem.
andrewH
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