Evaluate dataframe$column expression stored as a string value

Question

Can a string of the form below be evaluated so that it is equivalent to the same \"literal\" expression?

Example data and code:

df.name = data.frame(col1         


        

Answer 1

You are almost there:

> eval(parse(text = var1))
[1] "D"

Because parse expecting file by default, you need to specify the text parameter.