Convert console output of list to a real R list

Question

Someone just posted some console output as an example. (This happens a lot, and I have strategies for converting output of print for vectors and dataframes.) I\'m wondering if a

Answer 1

I wouldn't call it "elegant", but for unnamed lists you could do some checking/modifications to something along these lines:

s <- strsplit(gsub("\\[+\\d+\\]+", "", test), "\n+")[[1]][-1]
lapply(s, function(x) scan(text = x, what = double(), quiet = TRUE))

[[1]]
[1] 1.0000 1.9643 4.5957

[[2]]
[1] 1.0000 2.2753 3.8589

[[3]]
[1] 1.0000 2.9781 4.5651

[[4]]
[1] 1.0000 2.9320 3.5519

[[5]]
[1] 1.0000 3.5772 2.8560

[[6]]
[1] 1.0000 4.0150 3.1937

[[7]]
[1] 1.0000 3.3814 3.4291

Of course, this is specific to lists only and this particular example is specifically what = double(), so that would require additional checking. An idea that pops into my head to detect character elements in the list would be to make the what argument

what = if(length(grep("\"", x))) character() else double()