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I need to convert a character created by paste function to formula to be executed automatically.

Consider the following data frame:

z=data.frame(x=c(1,2,3))

Now storing the variable names in z

names=names(z)

and z contains one name as

names[1]

[1] "x"

Now assign the first column values to this name as

assign(names[1],z[,1])

Using paste function to build the following result

A=paste(c(names[1],"z"), collapse = "=")
B=paste0(A,"[,1]")
B

[1] "x=z[,1]"

it is clear that structure of B is a character

str(B)

chr "x=z[,1]"

****What I need is to convert this character to formula or run (not manually)** **

x=z[,1]

**But when I use **

as.formula(B)

I get

Error in formula.default(eval(parse(text = x, keep.source = FALSE)[[1L]])) : invalid formula

Note: I don't want to use eval parse or assign get as they are not formatted as a formula


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