How to call a function using the character string of the function name in R?

Question

I am trying to call a function with a given string of the function name.

E.g.

print(funcList)
[[1]]
`*`

[[2]]
sin

works:

Answer 1

See documentation for do.call.

A quick demonstration:

do.call("rnorm", list(100, 0, 1))

first parameter can be a string literal, or R object, and the second one is list of arguments that are to be matched with provided function formal arguments.