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Parse and evaluate quosures from string

Is there a way to parse and evaluate a quosure from a string. I would like to achieve the same output as in the example below:

library(rlang)
a <- 10
quo(UQ(a) + 2 * b)
## <quosure: global>
## ~10 + 2 * b

but starting from

t <- "UQ(a) + 2 * b"

What I tried so fare is:

# Trial 1:
quo(expr(t))

# Trial 2: 
parse_quosure(t)

# Trial 3:
quo(parse_quosure(t))
Solution

  • It looks like this may be a job for expr_interp. According to the documentation it "manually processes unquoting operators in expressions...".

    So you can first use parse_quosure and then process the unquoting operators via expr_interp.

    expr_interp(parse_quosure(t))

<quosure: global>
~10 + 2 * b