Convert a character string containing a concatenated set of numbers into a numeric vector in R

Question

I have the following object.

object1 <- "c(3:6, 8, 10:13, 16, 21)"

I'd like to convert object1, which is a character string, into the following numeric vector.

object2 <- c(3:6, 8, 10:13, 16, 21)

Are there any good solutions? base R solutions are preferred but I'm open to anything. Thanks!

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '23 at 22:58

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R base solution using eval+parse

> eval(parse(text=object1))
 [1]  3  4  5  6  8 10 11 12 13 16 21

answered Jan 20 '23 at 22:58

Jilber Urbina

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