Question: Can a string from an select tool be put in as an object in the R Tool Inputs

Question

Is it possible to read in a string into the r tool and use it as a formula?

For example, if I take a workflow that produces an r formula in a string format (i.e. glm(freq ~ marriage + state + age + length)) and put that into an r tool input, can I then read that into r and use that as a formula?  Currently the code is as follows but not yielding results I want:

#run the spline model
spline <- read.Alteryx("#2", mode = "list")
fit <- glm(as.formula(spline), family = quasipoisson(link="log"), data = the_data )

jbh1128d1 · Accepted Answer

Thanks Tony. It that didn't yield great results either. I did figure out how to bring in the string by pulling in the output as a data.frame then pulling the string out as a value itself and code it as a as.formula to use. Essentially I copied the method used in the out of the box count regression tool.

I appreciate the reply.