title: strsplit and lapply
body: <p>I have a string in some text of the form <code>"12,34,77"</code>, including the quotation marks.</p>
  
  <p>I need to get the values of each of those numbers into a list.  I tried using <code>lapply</code> and <code>strsplit</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>control2=lapply(strsplit(data$values,","),as.numeric)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I get the error: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>non character argument</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>