Description

• sym() creates a symbol from a string and syms() creates a list of symbols from a character vector.

• enquo() and enquos() delay the execution of one or several function arguments. enquo() returns a single quoted expression, which is like a blueprint for the delayed computation. enquos() returns a list of such quoted expressions.

• expr() quotes a new expression locally. It is mostly useful to build new expressions around arguments captured with enquo() or enquos(): expr(mean(!!enquo(arg), na.rm = TRUE)).

To learn more about tidy eval and how to use these tools, visit https://tidyeval.tidyverse.org and the Metaprogramming section of Advanced R.