I have some vectors I accidentally formatted the entire thing as character and now I can't revert it back into it being a vector. Is there a way to do this without going into regex?
Example
print(df[10])
[1] "c(\"1963-09-16\", \"1969-07-16\")"
print(length(df[10)))
[1] 1
CodePudding user response:
You can try:
library(tidyverse)
eval(parse(text = "c(\"1963-09-16\", \"1969-07-16\")") )
#> [1] "1963-09-16" "1969-07-16"
Or from a df
df <- data.frame(dates = rep("c(\"1963-09-16\", \"1969-07-16\")", 5))
summarise(df, dates = map(dates, function(x) eval(parse(text = x))) %>%
reduce(c))
#> dates
#> 1 1963-09-16
#> 2 1969-07-16
#> 3 1963-09-16
#> 4 1969-07-16
#> 5 1963-09-16
#> 6 1969-07-16
#> 7 1963-09-16
#> 8 1969-07-16
#> 9 1963-09-16
#> 10 1969-07-16
Created on 2021-12-07 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)