| parse {base} | R Documentation |
parse returns the parsed but unevaluated expressions in a
list.
parse(file = "", n = NULL, text = NULL, prompt = "?")
file |
a connection, or a character string giving the name of a
file or a URL to read the expressions from.
If file is "" and text is missing or NULL
then input is taken from the console. |
n |
integer (or coerced to integer). The maximum number of
expressions to parse. If n is NULL or negative or
NA the input is parsed in its entirety. |
text |
character vector. The text to parse. Elements are treated as if they were lines of a file. Other R objects will be coerced to character (without method dispatch) if possible. |
prompt |
the prompt to print when parsing from the keyboard.
NULL means to use R's prompt, getOption("prompt"). |
If text has length greater than zero (after coercion) it is used in
preference to file.
All versions of R accept input from a connection with end of line marked by LF (as used on Unix), CRLF (as used on DOS/Windows) or CR (as used on classic MacOS). The final line can be incomplete, that is missing the final EOL marker.
See source for the limits on the size of functions
that can be parsed (by default). There is also a limit of 8192 bytes
on the size of strings which can be parsed.
When input is taken from the console, n = NULL is equivalent to
n = 1, and n < 0 will read until an EOF character is read.
(The EOF character is Ctrl-Z for the Windows front-ends.)
An object of type "expression", with up to n
elements if specified as a non-negative integer.
A syntax error (including an incomplete expression) will throw an error.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
cat("x <- c(1,4)\n x ^ 3 -10 ; outer(1:7,5:9)\n", file="xyz.Rdmped")
# parse 3 statements from the file "xyz.Rdmped"
parse(file = "xyz.Rdmped", n = 3)
unlink("xyz.Rdmped")