I have a character string:
FUN.n = "exp( 3 * x^2 + 2 * x + 1)";
I want to cast it as a function:
myFunction = castAsFunction ( FUN.n );
So that I can access it like:
myFunction(x)
and it will evaluate appropriately.
FUN.n = "exp( 3 * x^2 + 2 * x + 1)";
myFunction = castAsFunction ( FUN.n );
# [...]
myFunction = function(x)
{
exp( 3 * x^2 + 2 * x + 1);
}
x = -3:3;
myFunction(x);
# [1] 3.6e+09 8.1e+03 7.4e+00 2.7e+00 4.0e+02 2.4e+07 5.8e+14
I have tried as.function
and eval(parse(text
and none of them behave as I would expect.
I am looking for a variadic solution.
We could actually create a function called castAsFunction
. We would need to give it not only a string as function body, but also the formal arguments. It feels like the function could be simplified, but it works with the example above.
FUN.n = "exp( 3 * x^2 + 2 * x + 1)"
x = -3:3
castAsFunction <- function(body, ...) {
dots <- match.call(expand.dots = FALSE)$...
form_ls <- rep(list(bquote()), length(dots))
names(form_ls) <- as.character(dots)
f <- function(){}
formals(f) <- form_ls
body(f) <- str2lang(body)
environment(f) <- parent.frame()
f
}
myfun <- castAsFunction(FUN.n, x)
myfun
#> function (x)
#> exp(3 * x^2 + 2 * x + 1)
myfun(x)
#> [1] 3.584913e+09 8.103084e+03 7.389056e+00 2.718282e+00 4.034288e+02
#> [6] 2.415495e+07 5.834617e+14
Created on 2021-02-18 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)