In this exemple, we want to execute code which is stored in a string format.
# the string
str <- "1+1"
# A string is not an expression.
is.expression(str)
[1] FALSE
eval(str)
[1] "1+1"
# parse convert string into expressions
parsed.str <- parse(text="1+1")
is.expression(parsed.str)
[1] TRUE
eval(parsed.str)
[1] 2