Create a list of functions from a vector of characters

Question

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this question has been answered previously - I have looked pretty extensively. I have a dataset containing a row of with concatenated informa

Answer 1

Maybe initialize your list with a single generic function, and then update them using:

foo <- function(x){x+3}
> body(foo) <- quote(x+4)
> foo
function (x) 
x + 4

More specifically, starting from a character, you'd probably do something like:

body(foo) <- parse(text = "x+5")