Remove quotes from a character vector in R

Question

Suppose you have a character vector:

char <- c(\"one\", \"two\", \"three\")

When you make reference to an index value, you get the follo

Answer 1

Here is one combining noquote and paste:

noquote(paste("Argument is of length zero",sQuote("!"),"and",dQuote("double")))


#[1] Argument is of length zero ‘!’ and “double”

Answer 2

as.name(char[1]) will work, although I'm not sure why you'd ever really want to do this -- the quotes won't get carried over in a paste for example:

> paste("I am counting to", char[1], char[2], char[3])
[1] "I am counting to one two three"

Answer 3

I'm just guessing, is this in the ball park of what you're trying to achieve?

> a <- "a"
> a
[1] "a" # quote yes
> as.factor(a)
[1] a #quote no

Answer 4

Just try noquote(a)

noquote("a")

[1] a